Introduction

Biography

Cobb earned a mu­sic di­plo­ma from the West­ern Nor­mal and Col­lege of Mu­sic in Dal­las, Tex­as, and taught sing­ing schools across Tex­as and neigh­bor­ing states. He was known for the Cobb Quar­tet, made up of his four daugh­ters.

Cobb was ed­it­ing hym­nals for the Quart­et Mu­sic Com­pa­ny of Fort Worth, Tex­as, by the 1890s. In 1935, George H. P. Sho­wal­ter re­cruit­ed him to work for the Firm Foun­da­tion, a month­ly Church­es of Christ pe­ri­od­i­cal pub­lished in Hous­ton, Tex­as.

Works

• The Har­vest­er, with John Tho­mas (Fort Worth, Tex­as: Quar­tet Mu­sic)
• The Gos­pel in Song, with John Tho­mas (Fort Worth, Tex­as: Quar­tet Mu­sic)
• The New Won­der­ful Songs for Work and Wor­ship, ed­it­or, with George H. P. Sho­wal­ter (Aus­tin, Tex­as: Firm Foun­da­tion Pub­lish­ing House, 1938)