Henry F. (Henry Frederick) Cochems

Born in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, in 1875, Henry Frederick Cochems studied at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned his B.L. in 1897. A later memorial from the university says he went on to study law at Harvard before building a successful legal career in Milwaukee.

Cochems was active in Wisconsin Republican politics as well as in law. Contemporary archival records connect him with Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive movement, and the Library of Congress lists him as a joint author of The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, a 1912 account of the attack in Milwaukee.

He died in 1921 at the age of 46. Although he is not widely known as a literary figure, his surviving publications and correspondence preserve a vivid link to the political world of the early twentieth century.