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Title: Genealogical and personal history of western Pennsylvania Vol. 3 / editor-in-chief, John W. Jordan.
Author: Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921.
Pg. 1688 under CAIRNS
The COCHRANS originally came to this country from Ireland, and SAMUEL COCHRAN, grandfather of MRS. CAIRNS, was probably born in Mifflin Twp., (pg. 1689) Allegheny Co., Pa., and died at the age of 65 years. His father, also SAMUEL COCHRAN, was one of the first settlers of Allegheny Co., taking up 200 acres of land and some of this property is still in possession of the family, MRS. CAIRNS owning a part of it. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church, and a loyal Democrat. SAMUEL COCHRAN, the second of the name, married GRIZELLA NEEL, also born in Mifflin Twp., died at the age of 94 years. They had children: LOUISE, married __MARSHAL; MYRA, died unmarried at the age of 94 years; HARVEY BYRON, died unmarried at an advanced age; MELISSA, who married CHARLES BOVARD; THERESA, married JOSEPH PAINE, both deceased. MELISSA (COCHRAN) BOVARD, and her brother, HARVEY BYRON COCHRAN, became converts to the Roman Catholic faith, and were devout communicants of that church throughout the remainder of their lives. HARVEY BYRON COCHRAN donated the ground for the Holy Name Church and parochial school in Duquesne, and was always a liberal supporter of these institutions. At his death his home was inherited by MRS. CAIRNS, in addition to a large quantity of other real estate and personal property of great value. The NEELS, from whom the maternal grandmother of MRS. CAIRNS is descended, were active in Revolutionary times, and MRS. CAIRNS is eligible to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution, The Society of Colonial Dames, and other similar societies.
z688 PICTURE of H. B. COCHRAN
This paragraph was before “The Cochrans originally...”
CAIRNS - JOHN J. CAIRNS was born at Ayrby, Ayrshire, Scotland, Sept. 10, 1876, a son of BARTHOLOMEW and ELIZABETH CAIRNS, who died when he was very young. He was still very young when he was brought to this country, and came to the West End, Pittsburgh, when he was about 10 years of age...He married, June 22, 1902, ZELLA B. BOVARD, born near New Alexandria, Westmoreland Co., Pa., a daughter of CHARLES and MELISSA (COCHRAN) BOVARD, the former born in that county about 1810, died in 1894, the latter born in Mifflin Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa., Jan. 6, 1825, died in January, 1895. MR. and MRS. CAIRNS have had children: MARY CATHERINE, born March 19, 1905; JOHN JOSEPH, born March 15, 1910.
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