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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
lina and Tennessee. The parents settled in
Hill county, Texas, in 1857, where the father
died in February, 1867, and the mother in
1872. Mr. and Mrs. Cochran have had nine
children, seven of whom survive: Nanna A.,
John D., Archelaus, Mary A., James P., Willie
L. and Ada M. Mr. Cochran has seen
the full growth and development of Dallas
from a cabin to a city of about 40,000 inhabitants,
and has always taken an active interest
in everything for its good and aided in
all public enterprises.
H H. McDADE, contractor and builder,
Dallas, has been in business here since
;w 1871. He was born in Richmond county,
Georgia, ten miles west of Augusta, on Big
Spirit creek, October 9, 1832, the first of
thirteen children born to Captain John and
Eliza (McTyre) McDade, he having six sisters
and six brothers, all natives of Georgia. His
father was a planter and proprietor of saw
and grist mills on Big Spirit creek, Richmond
county, Georgia. His parents passed
their lives in Georgia, and were buried on
tile homestead of Holland MIcTyre, his
grandfather. He was for several years engaged
with the Adams and Southern Express
companies, till 1861.
Fromn this date to 1865 he was with the
Confederate army in Georgia and Florida,
then the army of Tennessee from Missionary
Ridge to Atlanta, Georgia. He was wounded
at Peach-Tree creek (or Jones' Tannery),
near Atlanta, Georgia. Disabled by his
wound and cut off by the enemy from hie
command, he attached himself to Captain
Robert Allen's command of cavalry, where
he remained to the close of hostilities. He
then engaged with the National Express
Company until its demise; next the SouthernExpress Company from Mobile, Alabama, to
Cairo, Illinois: afterward he came to Texas.
In 1871 he came to Dallas city, his present
home, in whose material interest he has ever
taken an active part.
He has long been well and favorably
known here as a citizen, mechanic, a Confederate
Democrat, and a member of the
First Baptist Church.
; ATRICK W. LINSKIE was born in
county Galway, Ireland, in 1848, and
when six months of age his parents
crossed the sea to America, settling in New
Orleans. Here they were both stricken with
yellow fever, and died. Patrick received his:
education in New Orleans and then went to
Rapides parish, where he was living at the.
time of the breaking out of the civil war. He
was only fourteen years age, but he enlisted"
in Texada's Cavalry, and served with marked
distinction until the surrender. When hostilities
ceased he returned to New Orleans
and engaged in the undertaking business,
which he carried on with success until 1873.
He then removed to Dallas, Texas, and em-:
barked in the same line at the corner of
Main and Harwood streets; the frame building
first occupied has been replaced by a fine
brick edifice, and the patronage has grown to
immense proportions. Mr. Linskie is the
r official undertaker for the Hebrew and Roman
I Catholic population of the city. He has the
,most complete establishment of the kind in
3 the South, and is well fitted both by native
i tact and a thorough training for the dutiesof
i the business. He is a master of the process
of embalming, which he studied in St. Louis
and Cincinnati.
s Mr. Linskie was married December 19,
i 1876, to Miss Emma E. Sanderson of Mis-
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Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20932/m1/802/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.