Samuel B. Cobb arrived in Portland in the 1880s and became the epitome of the self-made man and pillar of the Portland community. So why did he never talk about the kit home company he helped found during WWI? A recent NARA accession sheds light on a new chapter in the life of Samuel Cobb, whose sprawling 1911 Craftsman home is on the National Register of Historic Places. (Presentation text available on my blog at http://the-three-percent.blogspot.com/2011/10/stories-we-choose-to-tell-samuel-b-cobb.html.)