Henry F. (Henry Frederick) Cochems

Born in 1875, Henry Frederick Cochems appears in library and archival records as an American author and public figure from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The clearest surviving bibliographic trail links him to The Truth about Money (1896), an early work on the money question, and to The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt (1912), which names him as a joint author alongside Oliver E. Remey and Wheeler P. Bloodgood.

Those records also place him in the orbit of Theodore Roosevelt. The Theodore Roosevelt Center preserves multiple letters sent to Henry F. Cochems, suggesting he was more than a casual commentator and had some standing in progressive political circles of the period.

Much about his personal life remains hard to confirm from the sources retrieved here, so the outline of his career is necessarily partial. Even so, the books and correspondence that survive show a writer engaged with the major public questions of his day, from monetary policy to one of the most famous political attacks in early twentieth-century America.