FULTON COUNTY OHIO 
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File contributed for use by Ohio Biographies Project
by Janet Wilkinson Schwartz (wilkinschw@aol.com)
December 2002
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History of Henry and Fulton Counties, Ohio.  Lewis Cass Aldrich, ed.  Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1888.

COBB, OSCAR A., Dover, Ottokee p.o., a pioneer of Dover township, was born in 
Griswald, New London county, Conn., in 1817, and settled in Fulton county in 
1846. He was married in 1841 to PHEBE L. KNAPP, of New York city. They have had a family of six children, two of whom are now living, ALBERT and DORA. Three 
died at early ages and one, ERNEST G., was born in 1843, enlisted in Company A, 67th Ohio Regiment, in 1862 and was discharged in 1863 on account of disability. He died at home in March 1863. 

PHEBE was the daughter of ARCHIBOLD W. and BETSEY KNAPP, who settled in Dover 
township in 1846, where they died. PHEBE is the only surviving one of the family. 

Mr. COBB was a son of ANSON S. and NANCY (KINGSLEY) COBB. ANSON S. was born in 
1791 and died in April, 1843. His wife, NANCY, was born in 1791, and died 
November 17, 1885. They were married November 25, 1809, and in 1831 settled in Delaware county, N.Y., where they died. They had a family of seven children, 
four of whom are now living: MARY E., OSCAR A., LUCY S., and ELISHA G. 

OSCAR A. was a sheriff of Fulton county four years, from 1860 to 1864, and 
director of the infirmary two terms. He has also held other minor offices. He 
settled on his present farm in 1865, paying $8 per acre for it and now has one 
of the finest farms in the county.