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Cocke, Lucian Howard

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1858 - 1927

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Cocke, Lucian H. , 1927

 File — Box 3, Folder: 19

Lucian Howard Cocke Correspondence, 1901

 File
Scope and Contents

Two letters between Cocke and Woodrow Wilson concerning the presidency of Washington and Lee University, after the death of William Lyne Wilson. As a member of the Board of Trustees, Cocke offered the job to Wilson, then a professor at Princeton University. Wilson declined the offer.

Dates: 1901