#1Writing & Arts
Baird Thomas Spalding
1857–1953(1872-1953) American writer
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Famous people · Cohocton
4 famous people were born in Cohocton
Articles in 8 languages make the American writer Baird Thomas Spalding the best known. Orson S. Fowler, the American phrenologist and lecturer, comes second, with Charlotte Fowler Wells third. The biggest group are business people: 2. Born in 1809, Orson S. Fowler is the first name on record, and Ernest C. White, born in 1872, the most recent.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Baird Thomas Spalding
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1809
Orson S. Fowler
Youngest
1872
Ernest C. White
Most common field
Business
2 people
The best known
Born in Cohocton
Two of the three are business people.
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Charlotte Fowler Wells
1814–1901American phrenologist, publisher
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Through the years
When Cohocton’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1850s, at 1.
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What Cohocton is known for
Share of Cohocton’s famous people in each field.
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Cohocton
1 more, best known first.
Ernest C. White
1872–1926American track athlete, college football player and coach, osteopathic physician
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Cohocton and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (3)
- Baird Thomas Spalding: Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Orson S. Fowler: Mathew Brady or Levin Handy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charlotte Fowler Wells: F. E. Willard & M. A. R. Livermore, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons