O. P. Cobb

    O. P. Cobb is a native of Pennsylvania, born April 25, 1817, and began his business career in Aurora in 1843 or 1844, and has ever since been actively engaged and connected with Aurora's greatest industries, being among her most enterprising and public-spirited citizens. Soon after the Gaff Bros. erected their flouring-mill and distillery, the Cobb Bros., our subject and John, built a port house and engaged in pork packing quite extensively, shipping South, where they also had a business house. During the war, O. P. Cobb was appointed by the United States Government an agent for furnishing forage for it, which required considerable business capacity. Aurora, at this time, was the second hay market in the Western States. Mr. Cobb has served in different capacities in the Aurora Iron and Nail Company, of which he was president. To facilitate the work of that industry he at various times invented and had patented machinery for different purposes.

Source: History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana by F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885.