He kept store in the house beside this second house until 1834. Cochran built his second stone house, on the northeast side of the square, in 1813. It was the beginning of the Millerstown Presbyterian Church which was later built in 1831-32 on lands donated by Thomas and Sophia Cochran.

Here Cochran kept a store and post office, as well as an inn known as the “Cochran Hotel.” The first sermon preached in Millerstown was by Reverend John Hutchinson of Mifflintown in the barroom of the hotel in 1806. The first stone house constructed in Millerstown by Cochran was the longtime VFW and was completed in 1801. The couple would have six children together. Records state that Thomas Cochran was “an elegant looking gentleman of courteous and pleasant manners and an excellent penman.” In 1802, he married Sophia Maria Porter of Lewistown, who was also born in Londonderry in 1776. Thomas and his three brothers purportedly owned large tracts of land, but because they were Protestant, chose to leave Ireland and come to this country. Thomas Cochran was born in 1776 in Londonderry, Ireland.

The Cochran-Anspach House was built in 1821 by Isaiah Clark, for Thomas Cochran, one of the first settlers and a larger landholder in Millerstown.

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