Correspondence, William Cochran with John Morgan, 1846

Subgroup I. Files Relating to William Cochran (father), Jacob Dolson Cox (stepfather), and Extended Cochran Family

Series 1. Letters Received and Sent by William Cochran, 1839-1846 (0.2 linear feet): Consists of correspondence received and sent by William Cochran, arranged alphabetically and thereunder chronologically, as well as two files containing miscellaneous material. Correspondence includes six letters sent to Charles Grandison Finney in 1846 and two letters from James H. Fairchild dated 1839-1840. A review, dated 1846, written by Finney in which he endorses Oberlin's faculty governance or the "Finney Compact" is also included, as well as a Cochran document reporting on his resignation from teaching at Oberlin (1846), and his diploma from the Oberlin Collegiate Institute dated 1839.

Series 2. Letters Received and Sent by Jacob Dolson Cox, 1859-1898 (0.6 linear feet): Consists of 155 letters received and sent by Jacob Dolson Cox. Of significance in this series are the ten original letters from William Tecumseh Sherman, dated between 1875 and 1882, in which he details his 1864 march through Georgia and provides his analysis of battles and individuals from the Civil War. Other individuals that wrote to Cox include a letter, dated 1869, from William Seward, several letters (1876-1882) from General Emerson Opdyke, and correspondence, dated 1881 to 1897, from Captain Thomas Speed, among others. Files are organized alphabetically and thereunder chronologically. An index of these letters was prepared by the archives staff, and is found in the front of the box.

Series 3. Letters Received from William Tecumseh Sherman to Jacob Dolson Cox, 1875-1891 (transcriptions) (1 folder): Comprises of transcriptions prepared by Ellen MacDaniels Speers, in 1994, granddaughter of William C. Cochran, of 23 General William Tecumseh Sherman letters sent to Jacob Dolson Cox that detail events from the Civil War. Included are ten original letters which are located in Series two. The remainder of the A.L.S. originals were divided among the Miller and Speers families. The transcriptions are in chronological order.

Series 4. Letters Received from Jacob Dolson Cox to Helen Finney Cochran Cox, 1861-1865 (transcriptions) (1 folder): Consists of a notebook containing the transcriptions prepared by Helen Finney Cochran Cox of 213 previously unseen letters sent to her by husband Jacob Dolson Cox during his Civil War service. Only 26 original letters survived, of which six are included in Series two and twenty in the Jacob Dolson Cox papers (30/3). In 1994, Ellen MacDaniels Speers, granddaughter of William C. Cochran, transcribed the letters contained in the notebook, creating a wordproccessing document of them. A printed copy is located within the series.

Series 5. Miscellaneous Correspondence Held by the Cochran Family, 1829-1864 (0.1 linear feet): Comprises of miscellaneous letters predating young Cochran's 1869 graduation from Oberlin College, which were in the family's possession. Included are letters received by Charles Grandison Finney and his daughter, Helen Finney Cochran Cox. Especially noteworthy is the letter written by Helen Finney Cochran Cox's mother, Lydia Root Andrews Finney, days after Helen's marriage to William Cochran.