Tulare County Biographies

CHARLES W. COBB

Transcribed by Jeannie Miyama

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Charles W. Cobb, city clerk and auditor of Tulare, California, was born in Cross 
county, Arkansas, April 28, 1864.  From Arkansas he went to De Leon, Texas, 
where at the age of thirteen years he started in to learn the printer�s trade.  
Beginning as the office devil, he worked his way upward until he was able to 
hold a case in almost any printing establishment in the country.  After some 
years in Texas he decided to migrate to the Pacific coast.  For some time he 
followed his trade in Seattle, Washington, and Albany, Oregon.  He also learned 
telegraphy.
 
In 1897 he came to California and located in Los Angeles, where he remained for 
two years.  At the end of that time he came to Tulare.  For a number of years he 
was employed by different firms as bookkeeper and accountant.  In 1920 he was 
appointed city clerk and in 1923 he was elected city auditor.  Mr. Cobb�s 
experience as a printer and accountant developed those qualities that go to make 
him an efficient public official.  The result is that the accounts and records 
of the city of Tulare are probably as well kept as any city of its size in the 
state of California.
 
Mr. Cobb was married to Miss Louisa J. Kirkpatrick, a native of North Carolina, 
and they have five children, viz.:  Mrs. R. H. Scott of Salem, Oregon; J. L. 
Cobb, a teacher in the Tulare high school; Wilbur K. Cobb of Los Angeles; Mrs. 
L. H. Stone of Portland, Oregon; and Mrs. William Biddle of New York.  Mr. Cobb 
is a deacon in the Congregational church.  His fraternal relations are with 
Tulare Camp No. 545, Woodmen of the World; and the Fraternal Aid.
 
Mrs. Cobb is a college graduate and is active in the civic and social affairs of 
the county and state.  For twelve years she has been president of the Women�s 
Christian Temperance Union for the counties of Tulare and Kings.  She is also 
state lecturer for the organization and spends three months of each year in 
visiting and lecturing in various towns of the state.  She is also interested in 
the work of the local women�s clubs; is a member of the county probation board 
of the Juvenile court of the Tulare district; and is an active member of the 
Congregational church.
 
History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen Edwards Small & 
J. Larry Smith, Vol. I, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1926, Page 
235