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'''Cully Alton Cobb, Sr.''' (February 25, 1884 – May 7, 1975),<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=July 16, 2010}}</ref> was an agricultural pioneer, educator, printer, journalist, and philanthropist in the American South who with his second wife, Lois Dowdle Cobb (August 1, 1889 – August 9, 1987),<ref name=ssdi/> co-founded the Cobb Institute of Archaeology on the campus of [[Mississippi State University]] in Starkville, [[Mississippi]].
'''Cully Alton Cobb, Sr.''' (February 25, 1884 – May 7, 1975),<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=July 16, 2010}}</ref> was an agricultural pioneer, educator, printer, journalist, and philanthropist in the American South who with his second wife, Lois Dowdle Cobb (August 1, 1889 – August 9, 1987),<ref name=ssdi/> co-founded the Cobb Institute of Archaeology on the campus of [[Mississippi State University]] in Starkville, [[Mississippi]].
==Background==
==Background==
Cobb was originally a poor farm boy born in his grandfather's cabin near Prospect in Giles County in rural southern [[Tennessee]].<ref>[[Jimmy Shoalmire]] and Roy Vernon Scott, ''The Public Career of Cully Cobb: A Study in Agricultural Leadership'' ([[Jackson]], [[Mississippi]]: University and College Press of Mississippi, 1973), p. 1; Shoalmire and Scott used materials from the [[Henry A. Wallace]] Collection at the [[University of Iowa]] in Iowa City in their biography of Cobb.</ref> He was a son of Napoleon Cobb (1849–1913) and the former Mary Agnes Woodward (1855–1932). In 1908, at the age of twenty-four, Cobb received his bachelor's degree from the then Mississippi A&M College. Thereafter, he accepted for two years the position of superintendent of the first agricultural high school, established in the unincorporated community of Buena Vista in Chickasaw County in northern Mississippi. From 1910 to 1918, Cobb was director of the men's agriculture club at Mississippi State University.
Cobb was originally a poor farm boy born in his grandfather's cabin near Prospect in Giles County in rural southern [[Tennessee]].<ref>[[Jimmy Shoalmire]] and Roy Vernon Scott, ''The Public Career of Cully Cobb: A Study in Agricultural Leadership'' ([[Jackson]], [[Mississippi]]: University and College Press of Mississippi, 1973), p. 1; Shoalmire and Scott used materials from the [[Henry A. Wallace]] Collection at the [[University of Iowa]] in Iowa City in their biography of Cobb.</ref> He was a son of Napoleon Cobb (1849–1913) and the former Mary Agnes Woodward (1855–1932). In 1908, at the age of twenty-four, Cobb received his bachelor's degree from the then Mississippi A&M College. Thereafter, he accepted for two years the position of superintendent of the first agricultural high school, established in the unincorporated community of Buena Vista in Chickasaw County in northern Mississippi. From 1910 to 1918, Cobb was director of the men's agriculture club at Mississippi State University.