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Daphne Marie Cobb
Daphne Marie Cobb
Daphne Marie Cobb

Daphne Marie Cobb

1898 New Mexico - 1928
BiographyDaphne Cobb was the third of the Cobb family’s four children. The Cobb family owned a photography shop, Cobb Studio, in New Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Daphne was a granddaughter of Edmund G. Ross, the New Mexico territorial governor from 1885 to 1889. She attended the University of New Mexico for a few years before discontinuing her studies to work for the Cobb family photography business as a shop manager, developer, and master finisher. She was known as the local beauty. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 29 on the train coming back from visiting her brother, Edmund, in Los Angeles, California. Daphne never married and was known for her bold and talkative personality.
Person TypeIndividual
Eddie R. Cobb
1862 Leavenworth, Kansas - 1945 Albuquerque, New Mexico
Edmund Fessenden Cobb
1892 Albuquerque, New Mexico - 1974 Woodland Hills, California
Susan Cobb Beyer
1894 New Mexico - 1987 Albuquerque, New Mexico
Marina Ancona
born 1971 New York, New York; lives Brooklyn, New York and Santa Fe, New Mexico
Meridel Rubenstein
born 1948 Detroit, Michigan; lives Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ruth Strong Campbell
1911 Chicago Heights, Illinois - 2001 Albuquerque, New Mexico
Mary Colter
1869 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 1958 Santa Fe, New Mexico
Paula Wilson
born 1975 Chicago, Illinois; lives Carrizozo, New Mexico
Olive Rush
1873 Fairmount, Indiana - 1966 Santa Fe, New Mexico