Background
Cochran, Thomas was born on March 20, 1871 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.
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Cochran, Thomas was born on March 20, 1871 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.
Phillips Academy.
He served as the head football coach at the University of Minnesota for the 1894 Golden Gophers season, leading the team to a 3–1 record. He was the second Yale University graduate to coach at Minnesota, following his predecessor, Wallie Winter. The Minnesota football program was suffering financially, so Cochrane delivered lectures titled "Football as Played in the East" at locations around the nation to help raise money.
Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on March 20, 1871, Cochran was the son of a lawyer and real-estate broker in New York and Saint Paul.
Cochran was the vice-president of the Astor Trust Company from 1906 to 1914, and president of the Liberty National Bank of New York from 1914 to 1916. In 1931, Cochran funded the creation of the Addison Gallery of American Art at his former school, Phillips Andover.
He was educated at Phillips Andover and at Yale, where he was an editor of campus humor magazine The Yale Record and a member of the Skull and Bones society.
Married Martha A. Griffin, September 30, 1910 (died 1914).