Belgian Neighborhood Tour

[Hermod]

The last honest mayor of the City of Detroit came out of the Belgian community, Mayor Cobo.

[Buffalogirl]

The last honest mayor of the City of Detroit came out of the Belgian community, Mayor Cobo.

I did not immediately recognize Cobo as a Belgian name, but when I looked it up on the site www.familienaam.be [[and also at http://home.scarlet.be/marcel.vervloet/), it turned out to be one of the variants of Cobbaut, and there are still Cobo's living in Belgium. Can anyone tell me some more about mayor Cobo and his family?
There was also a mayor Van Antwerp, but his ancestors supposedly came from New York where they had arrived long ago, in the Dutch time!