History of Cornish City, (Sullivan County) New Hampshire United States of America

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Levi Henry Cobb, editor, was born in Cornish, N. H., June 30, 1827; son of Levi and Calista S. (Bugbee) Cobb; grandson of Ebenezer and Mercy (Porter) Harlow Cobb; and of Reuben and Polly (Marsh) Bugbee; and a descendant of Henry Cobb, who came to Plymouth, Mass., from England in 1629. He prepared for college at Kimball union academy, Meriden, N. H., and was graduated at Dartmouth in 1854 and at Andover theological seminary in 1857. He received his A.M. degree from Dartmouth in 1857 and was ordained and installed pastor at North Andover, Mass., Oct. 28, 1857, holding the pastorate till 1864. He was a teacher at Memphis, Tenn., and Meriden, N. H., 1864-67; pastor at Springfield, Vt., 1867-74; superintendent of the Congregational home missionary society, Minnesota, 1874-81; missionary secretary, 1881-82; and secretary of the Congregational church building society, 1882-99. He was elected a member of the Congregational club of Minnesota in 1879; of the Congregational club of New York in 1882; of the Anthropological society in 1883; of the American institute of Christian philosophy, New York, in 1884; of the International council, London, England, in 1891; and corporate member of the A.B.C.F.M., in 1872. He was married Jan. 12, 1858, to Harriet J. Herrick. He received the degree of D.D. from Dartmouth in 1881. He edited sixteen volumes of the Church Building Quarterly.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Cornish City, (Sullivan County) New Hampshire

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