The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-04-11

Colonel John A. Cockerill was born il
Locust Grove, Adams county, o., Dec, 5
| 1845. His father was John r. Cockerill
| commander of the Seventeen o. V. l.
| which distinguished itself in the civi
war. After the battle of Shiloh Colone
| Cockerill won the highest words of praise
| from General Sherman. In November
| 1862, Colonel Cockerill commanded q
brigade formed of the Seventeen o. " l
and the Fifty-third o. V. l., and the
Ninety-seventh and Ninety-ninth 1. V. l.
In this capacity he participated at the
siege of Vicksburg, the Jackson cam
paign and Missionary Ridge and after
| ward in the march to the sea.
The son, John A. Cockerill received his
education in the common schools of Wes
Union, Adams county, o., and in 1861 he
was learning the trade of a printer His
brother raised company and John &c
companied his brother to Camp Chase
Being neither the proper size nor age
John was refused enlistment, but he aft
erward got into the Twenty Fourth Ohio
regiment as drummer boy, serving with
Generals Rosecrans and Reynolds. In
1861 he went to Louisville with General
Buell. and participated at Fort Donaldson
Shiloh and other battles, serving in Mis-
sissippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Ken.
lucky. After military bands were dis
pensed with John got back in the army Us
buglar. Late in 1853 Cockerill purchased
an interest in small paper in Adams
county. He was success from the start
in the newspaper business. He was after.
ward editor of The Evening Ledger at
Dayton, which was at that time the organ
of Vallandingham.
In 1867 and 1868 he was journ al clerk of
the Ohio house of representatives. During
his service as clerk of the legislature he
was also editor of The Telegraph, the
Democratic organ of Butler equity and he
remained in charge of The True Tele-
graph until he came to Cincinnati in 1863
as a reporter on The Enquirer Tbs same
year he became city editor of that paper.
In 1870 he was made editor and manag-
ing editor. In 1877 no was Enquirer COR
respondent of the Russo Turkish war. In
1877 he edited the Washington Post and
the following year the Baltimore Gazette.
In January 1880 Colonel Cockerill re.
moved to st. Louis where he had secured
large interest in the Post Dispatch and
became associated with Joseph Pulitzer
with the editorship of that paper. 1t was
III llt tNllJOIlul TOOlllS vi Jllc OSb
that he killed Judge Slayback in self-de-
fence.
When Mr.. Pulitzer purchased the New
York World Colonel Cockerill went with
him to New York and did much as the
editor of The World toward the develop
ment of that great newspaper. In 1891 he
became editor of the New York Morning
Advertiser and Commercial Advertiser
Colonel Cockerill was elected president
for five successive terms of the New York
Press club and was for two terms presi-
dent of the National Press club. He was
a prominent member of the Ohio society
of New York, of the military order of the
Loyal Legion, Republic lodge No. 1O9
f. and A. NJ, and the New York Repub-
lican club, besides other organizations.
He was married, but leaves no children.
His wife accompanied him when no left
one year ago to go to Japan as the CORE.
spondent for the New York Herald, and
they occupied II very handsome residence
at the capital of the japanese empire.