Carlisle Cobb family papers, 1815-1971, bulk 1922-1947

Summary

Creator:
Cobb family
Date:
1815-1971, bulk 1922-1947
Extent:
24.1 Linear Feet (57 document boxes, 1 oversized box, 1 oversized folder B)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Carlisle Cobb family papers, ms2007, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of correspondence, clippings, photographs, receipts, family legal papers, radio scripts of Carlisle Cobb, and manuscripts of Carlisle Cobb and Mary McKinley Cobb. The correspondence contains letters between Howell Cobb, Mary McKinley Cobb, Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, and members of the McKinley family. The bulk of the correspondence contains letters from Carlisle Cobb to his wife Kate Cobb; from Carlisle, Jr. to his wife Juliette Cobb from England, France, and Ireland while serving with the 6th and 28th Cavalry during World War II; and from Mary McKinley Cobb, while a student at Kansas State University, to Lee Trimble. Other correspondents include Sara Cobb Baxter, Howell E. Cobb, Zachariah Lamar Cobb, and Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb.

Biographical / historical:

Carlisle Cobb (1886-1970) was a lawyer and judge, the son of Howell Cobb (1842-1909) and Mary McKinley Cobb (1844-1927), he married Kate McKinley Treanor in 1913. their children include Carlisle Cobb, Jr. (1916) married Juliette Dale, Howell Edward (1918), and Mary McKinley (1923) married Lee Trimble. Other family members include Carlisle's brothers Zachariah Lamar Cobb (b. 1880) and Thomas Reade Roots (1868-1898) who married Maud Barker (d. 1891), sisters Sara Spalding (b. 1882) who married Richard Baxter (d. 1906) and Caroline Elizabeth (b. 1884), and his nephew Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (b. 1896).

Access and use restrictions

Preferred citation:

Carlisle Cobb family papers, ms2007, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.