Paducah, KY, United States
Cobb's Birth Site. House in which Paducah's famed humorist, Irvin S. Cobb, was born in 1876 stood here until 1917. The home of Dr. Reuben Saunders, Cobb's maternal grandfather, a pioneer physician who practiced here 1847-1891. For discovery of a cure for cholera in epidemic of 1876, he was decorated
by several foreign countries, cited by U.S. Presented by Clyde Boyles.
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