For this month’s Kickass Women in History we turn to the nerdy end of the spectrum with Josephine Cochrane (sometimes spelled ‘Cochran’). She was the inventor of the modern dishwasher.
Born 1839, Josephine Garis came from a nerdy family of engineers and inventors. In 1858 she married a wealthy man, William Cochran, who had earned a ridiculous amount of money as a dry goods merchant. When they married, Cochrane took her husband’s last name as was the custom, but she added an ‘e’ to the end of it.
After the marriage, Cochrane had two children (one of whom died at the age of two) and became a full-time socialite. The family lived in Shelbyville, Illinois. Cochrane liked to entertain with her special china and she hated it when the dishes were chipped, which she blamed on poor handling by the servants. She started washing her own dishes, and to her extreme annoyance she chipped some herself. Eventually, according to the U.S. Patent and Trade Office, she declared: “If nobo
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This is such a difficult time to lose someone: grieving and social distancing just do not work together, wrote the daughters of one victim who died in April.
According to the county s coroner, as of March 26, 2021, some 974 people had died of COVID-19 here since the pandemic took its first local life a year ago, on March 26, 2020.
Many have had their lives recounted on the obituary pages of LNP | LancasterOnline, but only a small number of those tributes have publicly confirmed that their deaths were related to COVID-19.
Here are 85 coronavirus victims whose LNP | LancasterOnline obituaries or other reports publicly cited the disease s role in their deaths. They are but a fraction of the ongoing pandemic s local toll so far.
DUI crash leaves woman paralyzed
A driver involved in a single-vehicle, rollover crash in early November that left a Perry woman paralyzed from the waist down was charged last week with multiple DUI violations, including DUI with property damage and causing serious injury to another person.
David William Cochran Jr. – who was found to have methamphetamine in his system at the time of the crash – was booked at the Taylor County Jail on Thursday, Jan. 14, on charges of DUI and property damage, DUI and serious bodily injury to another, DUI (alcohol or drugs), failure to register motor vehicle, driving with suspended license and contempt of court.