Norvell P. Cobb
Norvell P. Cobb was an American Civil War officer, banker and hotelier.
Norvell Cobb was born in Buckingham County, Virginia in 1824 to William Cobb and Sarah Sallie Ann Puryear. He came from a prominent landed and slaveholding family seated in the BuckinghamAlbemarle area of Virginia since the early to mid18th century. Prior to the Civil War, Cobb and his brothers helped develop the town of Maysville where he cofounded the Maysville Savings Bank and built the first hotel. Cobb expanded his enterprises by acquiring the Randolph House in Farmville, Virginia. Over time Cobb and his brothers took an ever more active role in politics and daily operation of life in Buckingham and Prince Edward Counties, Virginia. Cobb and his elder brother Watson Benning Cobb oversaw the construction of major roads, delivery of mail, organization of the county finances and wholesale auction and distribution of tobacco from planters in the region. The brothers were also involved in local government including the organization of a slave monitoring system in the postNat Turner pe
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