Nelson Cobb

[6] Although his age has exempted him from military duty in the American Civil War he joined Captain Cracklin's company and took part in the defence of his home-town.

[3] His opinions are to be found in the first two volumes of the Kansas State Reports, and were said to "show remarkable powers of accurate analysis, clear and terse expression, exact knowledge of the law, and a high sense of justice".

[9] Cobb was then nominated in this 1866 election by the National Union state convention, but was defeated, and Samuel Austin Kingman took up the position.

Cook,[10] and for the first ten years he was engaged in active professional life before retiring from general practice, acting only as occasional counsel in important causes.

He had a remarkable faculty for seizing the essential points of a case, of excluding all that was merely subordinate to the principal question, and bringing the latter into clear light for determination.