Hugh M. Cochran, Retired Lumber Executive, Dies
Arrangements were being made here last night for the burial of Hugh M. Cochran, 74, of 1090 Linden Avenue, veteran retired lumber firm executive and member of a well known Morgan county family, who died early Thursday morning at Good Samaritan hospital three months after his admission there.
Following his retirement in 1932 as general manager of the Union Lumber Co. of San Francisco, Mr. Cochran had made his residence in Zanesville.
Born Jan. 17, 1865, at McConnelsville to the late Mary and H. M. Cochran, he went to the west coast while still a youth and achieved marked success there as a lumber operator and in connection with a number of lumber businesses.
Before his retirement Mr. Cochran had been actively connected in some capacity with the lumber industry for more than 40 years.
Active in fraternal circles for many years, Mr. Cochran was a 32nd degree Mason of Occidental lodge of San Francisco and also a Shriner. He was preceded in death in 1931 by his wife Lizzie Cochran, in California.
Surviving are three sons, Major Hugh M. Cochran, Jr. U. S. A., of Fortress Monroe, Va.; Roy, of Delhi, Calif., and Claude Cochran, SanFrancisco; two sisters, Mrs. C. P. Thompson, Linden avenue, and Miss Mary L. Cochran, McConnelsville; two brothers, W. F. Cochran, McConnelsville, and William E. Cochran, San Francisco; several nieces and nephews including Miss Beulah Thompson and Kenneth C. Thompson, both of Zanesville; Mrs. J. C. Rogers, Pacific Palisades, Calif.; Dr. Hugh C. Thompson, Columbus, and Mrs. Ambrose Middleton, Mansfield, and a number of grandchildren.
It is expected that funeral arrangements will be completed upon the arrival of Major Cochran from Virginia. The body was taken to the Mader-Peoples funeral home.