Michael Cochrane:  

Michael Iron Eagle Scott Cochrane I was born in 1947 and I am 73 years old. I am the oldest of two brothers. I am a Native American on the Cherokee rolls of 1977. I attended college from 1965 to 1966 prior to going into the service in 1966. I am a veteran of the Viet Nam era having served from 1966 to 1972. In 1972 and 1973 I attended college and earned another degree using my GI Bill and a BIA scholarship. I quit school full time to support my family. I continued part time from then in college. I just had my fifth Daughter when I quit. I then worked as a contractor as my Grandfather and father had. Construction was good to me. I was a design builder a combination of an Architect and a General Contractor with an electrical and drywall license. That meant I designed and built projects from a doghouse to multiple level houses to shopping centers. Most contractors are a builder and not a designer at the same time. After my first wife died and all of our children moved away in 1995, I became a pastor for over two years. I had raised my five daughters and was called Mr. Mom prior to the movie of the same name. I now enjoy the title of Grandpa. Currently, I am a widow and recently lost my last wife of ten years to cancer in January of 2011. I have lost my last two special women to that disease. I married in 2018 and very happy. I still donate time in building and designing Churches for all types of faiths and am active in Habitat for Humanity. I lived on an Indian reservation for two years in Bishop, California, giving of my construction talents to the tribe in completing projects started and not finished. In 1998, I re-opened the construction company. In 2008, I stopped being a full time licensed contractor with over 40 years experience. I choose to build my own house, as I had wanted to do my whole career. I built it from the ground up on land I had purchased in 1999 when I visited the Florence area on the coast in Oregon. I achieved the goal of a lifetime when I built my house all by myself from clearing the lot to processing the trees to the installation of...Expand for more