Background
Cobb, Collier was born on March 21, 1862 in Mount Auburn Plantation, Wayne Company, North Carolina, United States. Son of Needham B. (D. D.) and Martha Louisa (Cobb) Cobb.
Cobb, Collier was born on March 21, 1862 in Mount Auburn Plantation, Wayne Company, North Carolina, United States. Son of Needham B. (D. D.) and Martha Louisa (Cobb) Cobb.
Student Wake Forest College, honorary Science Doctorate., 1917. Student University of North Carolina. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1889, Master of Arts, 1894.
Battle, Collier, Mary Louisa. Married second, Lucy P. Battle, April 6, 1904 (died 1905). Married 3d, Mary Knox Gatlin, October 27, 1910.
Taught in public schools of North Carolina.
Lecturer in State normal schools. Assistant Harvard, 1888-1890.
Instructor Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1890-1892. Professor geology, University of North Carolina, 1892.
Kenan research professor, 1920-1921, studying shore lines North. Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea.
Taught geology, summer, Harvard, 1891, Knoxville, 1902, 09, Biltmore Forest School, 1905-1912, Cornell, 1928, and University of North Carolina. Student of moving sands, coast lines and soils.
Member Baltimore Conference on China-America Relations, 1925. Fellow Geological Society America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association American Geographers. Edited and published small illustrated paper, 1871-1875.
Married Mary L. Battle, January 27, 1891 (died 1900). Married second, Lucy P. Battle, April. Married 3d, Mary Knox Gatlin, October 27, 1910.
Children: William