Cochran Bros.

     
     
     In his early years in Zanesville, John Lowrey Cochran did occasional work with tobacco manufacture. By 1817 he had begun his tobacco business. He continued in that business for the rest of his life.
     At least six of John Lowrey Cochran's ten sons were in the tobacco business for a portion of their adult lives. Wyatt Campbell Cochran was a tobacconist and cigar maker in Zanesville. Robert Loyal Cochran was involved in both the tobacco business and the grocery business in Zanesville and Muskingum County. Samuel Wallace Cochran was a cigar maker in Muskingum County and in Cincinnati around 1850, but was more usually involved in law and the military. Isaac Brownlee Cochran was in the tobacco business in Wheeling in 1860. John Lowrey Cochran jr. and later Hugh Macauley Cochran spent most of their adult lives in the tobacco business in McConnelsville, Morgan County, Ohio.
     
     About 1837 John Lowrey Cochran jr. moved to McConnelsville and began a tobacco business. He died in 1850 and the business was continued by his brother Hugh. Click the text icon for an article on the McConnelsville tobacco business from 1837 till 1909.
     Hugh Macauley Cochran remained in the tobacco business till his death in 1922. Family stories tell of his walking daily to and from the factory until the week before he died.
     Francis Wayland Cochran youngest son of Hugh, joined his father in the business by 1900. He inherited his father’s share of the business and continued it until Cochran Bros. was discontinued and the property sold in the 1950s.