Dr. David Hilliard Cobb II, a retired U.S. Army Colonel, was born December 4, 1896, at Coaling, Alabama, a son of David and Margaret Kyle Cobb. Cobb attended Ensley High School and University of Alabama class of 1918. He was on the Philomathic Literary Society and played class football. Cobb graduated from Louiseville Medical College in Louisville, Kentucky in 1922. He also graduated from Baylor University Medical School in Waco, Texas. He was a member of Phi Chi fraternity. He worked for the Veteran's Administration in Legion, Texas (now Kerrville) in 1942 as an ears, eyes, nose and throat doctor. With his first wife Marion Scott he had the following children: David Hilliard Cobb III, Ernest Lee Cobb, Margaret "Peggy" Cobb, Howell Cobb and Llewellyn "Dale" Cobb. His second wife was Eva Smith Cobb.
He had been a career officer in the Army Medical Corps and retired with the rank of Colonel. He enlisted and served in both WWI and WWII. He was of the Baptist faith and a member of the Masons, the Shrine, Scottish Rite and the American Legion, all in California.
He died December 3, 1961 in Los Angeles, California. Internment is in Memorial Burial Park, Wheelersburg, Ohio.
"Alabama is the Mother State of Many Famous Texans. Dr. David H. Cobb, who was born at Tuscaloosa, educated in Birmingham, University of Alabama, University of Chicago and Baylor University of Texas, started practicing medicine in Dallas, but later was the first physician to locate at the oil town of Borger, Texas, built and owned the Union Hospital." Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery, Alabama, August 1930.
He had been a career officer in the Army Medical Corps and retired with the rank of Colonel. He enlisted and served in both WWI and WWII. He was of the Baptist faith and a member of the Masons, the Shrine, Scottish Rite and the American Legion, all in California.
He died December 3, 1961 in Los Angeles, California. Internment is in Memorial Burial Park, Wheelersburg, Ohio.
"Alabama is the Mother State of Many Famous Texans. Dr. David H. Cobb, who was born at Tuscaloosa, educated in Birmingham, University of Alabama, University of Chicago and Baylor University of Texas, started practicing medicine in Dallas, but later was the first physician to locate at the oil town of Borger, Texas, built and owned the Union Hospital." Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery, Alabama, August 1930.
Dr. David Hilliard Cobb II, a retired U.S. Army Colonel, was born December 4, 1896, at Coaling, Alabama, a son of David and Margaret Kyle Cobb. Cobb attended Ensley High School and University of Alabama class of 1918. He was on the Philomathic Literary Society and played class football. Cobb graduated from Louiseville Medical College in Louisville, Kentucky in 1922. He also graduated from Baylor University Medical School in Waco, Texas. He was a member of Phi Chi fraternity. He worked for the Veteran's Administration in Legion, Texas (now Kerrville) in 1942 as an ears, eyes, nose and throat doctor. With his first wife Marion Scott he had the following children: David Hilliard Cobb III, Ernest Lee Cobb, Margaret "Peggy" Cobb, Howell Cobb and Llewellyn "Dale" Cobb. His second wife was Eva Smith Cobb.
He had been a career officer in the Army Medical Corps and retired with the rank of Colonel. He enlisted and served in both WWI and WWII. He was of the Baptist faith and a member of the Masons, the Shrine, Scottish Rite and the American Legion, all in California.
He died December 3, 1961 in Los Angeles, California. Internment is in Memorial Burial Park, Wheelersburg, Ohio.
"Alabama is the Mother State of Many Famous Texans. Dr. David H. Cobb, who was born at Tuscaloosa, educated in Birmingham, University of Alabama, University of Chicago and Baylor University of Texas, started practicing medicine in Dallas, but later was the first physician to locate at the oil town of Borger, Texas, built and owned the Union Hospital." Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery, Alabama, August 1930.
He had been a career officer in the Army Medical Corps and retired with the rank of Colonel. He enlisted and served in both WWI and WWII. He was of the Baptist faith and a member of the Masons, the Shrine, Scottish Rite and the American Legion, all in California.
He died December 3, 1961 in Los Angeles, California. Internment is in Memorial Burial Park, Wheelersburg, Ohio.
"Alabama is the Mother State of Many Famous Texans. Dr. David H. Cobb, who was born at Tuscaloosa, educated in Birmingham, University of Alabama, University of Chicago and Baylor University of Texas, started practicing medicine in Dallas, but later was the first physician to locate at the oil town of Borger, Texas, built and owned the Union Hospital." Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery, Alabama, August 1930.
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