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Henry Park Cochrane
1856–1943
An American Baptist missionary and writer, he is best remembered for vivid firsthand accounts of Burma drawn from years of work there. His books mix travel observation, religious mission history, and detailed descriptions of Burmese society as he encountered it.
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Among the Burmans: A Record of Fifteen Years of Work and its Fruitage
by Henry Park Cochrane
About the author
Born in 1856, Henry Park Cochrane was an American Baptist missionary who spent many years in Burma, now Myanmar. Archival records identify him as Rev. Henry Park Cochrane, D.D., and place his mission service in Toungoo from 1889 to 1915.
He is best known for Among the Burmans: A Record of Fifteen Years of Work and its Fruitage, published in 1904. The book brings together missionary experience, cultural observation, and reflections on daily life in Burma, making it both a personal record and a period document of how an American missionary viewed the country and its people.
Cochrane died in 1943. A searchable public record of his work survives through archival collections, and his writing remains available through Project Gutenberg and major library catalogs, where it continues to interest readers looking for historical perspectives on Burma and missionary literature.