Preceded by Leonard R. Cutter Spouse Aurelia Beattie Nationality American Alma mater Taunton | Name Samuel Cobb Political party Whig Party Role Politician Succeeded by Frederick O. Prince | |
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Died February 18, 1891, Boston, Massachusetts, United States | ||
Samuel Crocker Cobb, (May 22, 1826 – February 18, 1891) was a businessman and politician who served on the city councils of the cities Roxbury, Massachusetts and Boston, Massachusetts and who served three consecutive terms as the Mayor of Boston.
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Early life
Cobb was born May 22, 1826 in Taunton, Massachusetts to David George Washington Cobb and Abby (Crocker) Cobb.
Family life
On November 21, 1848, Cobb married Aurelia L. Beattie, in Belfast, Maine. Aurelia was the third daughter of William and Jane I. Beattie of East Thomaston, Maine.
Cobb's election as mayor
Cobb was elected mayor in November 1873.
Cobb's mayoralty
Cobb opposed creating jobs for the unemployed after the Panic of 1873, declaring the idea subversive to our whole social fabric, tending directly to communism in its worst form.
The event of greatest historical interest during Mayor Cobb's administration was the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. It is related that on this occasion many men who had taken leading parts in the war of the rebellion, both Unionists and Confederates, met for the first time in peace. Cobb was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati