Coming with the advancing tide of emigration to the Northwest, he located in the new State of Indiana, and was successful in maintaining his family and gathering together a valuable estate. John H. was the youngest in the family of seven children who brightened the pioneer home of William and Deborah (Custer) Cochran. One little one passed away in early life, but six survived to adult age. Margaret became the wife of John Wilson, of Crawfordsville; James married, and died in Medina, Ohio, leaving a family; Logan is now residing at Veedersburgh, Ind.; Mary was united in marriage with Henry Crawford, of Crawfordsville; Amanda is the wife of William Warden, of Ohio; Jacob died in youth; and John H. our subject completes the list.

In 1851, Mr. Cochran married Miss Diana Morehouse, a daughter of William Morehouse, a pioneer settler of Indiana, who removed with his family from Ohio to the Hoosier State in 1833. Mr. Morehouse was a native of the Old Country, and was born and reared in Ireland. The success of many of his fellow-countryman in the land of the free determined him to sail for America. He made his home in Baltimore and married there. His wife bore the maiden name of Catherine Mincher. Mr. and Mrs. Morehouse located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and remained there for a time, but were induced to try the farther West, and settled permanently in Montgomery County, Ind. In their pleasant home their seven children were trained to habits of industry, and each and all had the advantage of such schooling as the new country could afford.

Mrs. Cochran was the eldest of the family. Her brothers and sister are Calvin, now of Champaign County, Ill.; Robert, deceased; Benjamin, a resident of St. Louis, Mo.; Hiram, of Monticello; Jane, the wife of Jesse Barons, of northern Illinois; and William, who died in White County, Ind. Our subject and his wife began their housekeeping upon the homestead which has sheltered them ever since. The large body of well-tilled land which Mr. Cochran so diligently cultivated was partly an inheritance, but many of the acres have been added to the original legacy by the careful management and thrift of the young heir, who entered into possession when he had scarcely attained to manhood. Mr. and Mrs. Cochran are the parents of three, two sons and one daughter. Catherine D. is the wife of Sylvester Morris; and the sons are John L. and Louis W. All reside on the home farm, near the residence of their parents. Surrounded by old friends and neighbors, enjoying the society of their children and their children’s families, and secure in a comfortable competence, which enables them to aid others less fortunate, our subject and his partner in life’s joys and sorrows may tranquilly look back upon a well[spent life and rejoice in much deserved prosperity.