death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title education name occupation
wagoner , oklahoma october 11 , 1947 bradley county , tennessee , u.s. december 12 , 1865 samuel sylvester cobb
 state agricultural college , manhattan , kansas samuel sylvester cobb business man
samuel sylvester cobb

samuel s. cobb , the youngest son of j.b. cobb and evaline clingan , was born on december 12 , 1865 , in bradley county , tennessee , usa .
in 1870 , cobb and his family traveled by train to fort scott , kansas , where they loaded up and took a wagon to tahlequah , indian territory , the cherokee nation 's capital .
after about ten months cobb and his family left tahlequah and settled southeast of the present day town of wagoner .
at this spot cobb 's father paid $ 1500 to a cherokee for a two-room box house , a log barn and a few acres of fenced land .
all the land was owned together by the cherokees and anyone could farm as much they wanted as long as no one 's rights were infringed upon .
cobb went to school at home until he was sixteen , then entered the cherokee male seminary , in tahlequah , oklahoma , for two years .
in 1884 he became a student at the state agricultural college -lrb- now kansas state university -rrb- in manhattan , kansas and graduated after four years in 1889 .
