Cobb, James S.

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For a "prominent executive" with a warehouse named after him, and a "prominent house" in Morehead Hill, surprisingly little is written about James S. Cobb.

Married Nannie (Orr) Cobb.

One son was John Blackwell Cobb, an All-American basketball player at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1924-1927.

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9123 South Lowell Road - Cobb Farms / Pearse House

(Courtesy Cissy Pearse) It's not clear to me who was the original occupant / owner of the house at 9123 South Lowell Road. In ~1908, James S. Cobb acquired multiple tracts of land near Rougemont Road and South Lowell Road. The metes and bounds descriptions of these tracts ( "from the pile of rocks at Sasquatch's corner...," etc.) make it very hard...
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Cobb-Toms House / Morehead Manor

The property at the northwest corner of Morehead Avenue and Vickers was originally occupied by Mrs. WH Berry, who, when James Cobb bought her property in the mid 1910s, moved her house to 713 Parker St. Cobb worked for as an executive for Liggett and Myers; like Stagg and George Watts Hill, he built his new home in Morehead Hills reasonable proximity to the Liggett (formerly Duke) factory. Looking north from across Morehead Ave., 1944
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