Freeman Cobb
American entrepreneur (1830–1878)
Freeman Cobb (10 October 1830 – 24 May 1878) was an American, born in Brewster, Massachusetts, who established the Cobb & Co stagecoach company in 1853, with partners John Murray Peck, James Scanlon and John B. Lamber. The company was based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and used Concord coaches, imported from America, to provide services to and from the Victorian goldfields.2
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Born 1830, died 1878.1
Companies
- Cobb and CoFounder6
Early life and education
Cobb was born on 10 October 1830 in Brewster, Massachusetts. He was the son of Hannah (née Crosby) and Freeman Cobb senior.
Cobb was educated in Boston. At the age of 16 he joined Witherell, Stow & Wood, a dry goods firm, with whom he worked for three years. In 1849, he joined Adams & Company, an express delivery firm, and was employed on the company's coach lines in California and Central America.
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Career
Occupation: businessperson.4
- Date not recordedFounded Cobb and Co3
Personal life
- CitizenshipAustralia5
In 1858, Cobb married his cousin Annette Cobb, with whom he had one son and one daughter. He suffered a bout of rheumatic fever as a young man which left him "permanently lame".
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Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataFreeman Cobb on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaFreeman Cobb on Wikipedia
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- 6WikidataCobb and Co, Founder
- 7Wikimedia CommonsFreeman Cobb photo by "Brady", Public domain