Samuel Cochran (May 9, 1871 – December 26, 1952) was an American medical missionary and philanthropist who worked for over twenty years in Eastern China. One of the "first half-dozen physicians in China,"[1] Cochran was the Station Chairman for the Hwai-Yuen Mission.[2] Under his leadership, two hospitals were erected in Hwai-Yuen,[3] with one specifically dedicated to local women.[4] Cochran served as president of the Medical Association of China for two terms.[5] Later, Cochran transitioned to academia, working for Shantung Christian University (Cheeloo University, now Shandong University).[6] and inspiring the merger between the university's medical program with Peking Women's Medical School to develop a teaching hospital. Cochran's long-term research, started at the mission and continued at the university, focused on treating Kala-Azar,[6] a parasitic disease endemic to China. Cochran would retire to the United States, continuing medical and academic work there until 1951.
^Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church (Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.) (1912). Hospitals in China. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
^Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church (Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.) (1920). Hospitals in China. Philadelphia: Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
^"Dr. Cochran Dies at 81". Plainfield Courier-News. December 27, 1952. p. 14.
