Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Cotton, E H 1835 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

E. H. Cotton, farmer, P. O. Coal City, was born December 3, 1835, in 
Montgomery County, N. Y.; is a son of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Sweet) Cotton. 
The parents were married January 15, 1815; they removed from New York to 
Braceville Township in 1854, at which time the father erected a blacksmith 
shop, on the present site of the village of Braceville; he lived for awhile 
with his son-in-law, Braugham, who had settled here about 1852. The father 
died in this county in 1870, and the mother in 1872; were the parents of Mary, 
Sallie, John R., Nicholas, Garrett, Lucinda, James P., David G., Calvin H. and 
E. H. The father served in the war of 1812. Our subject attended school some 
during his younger days, and has always been a farmer; he hauled all the 
lumber from Morris by ox team, from which his father constructed his first 
house in this county; he was married September 15, 1855, to Elizabeth J. 
Mitchell, a daughter of John and Lucy (Patterson) Mitchell; she was one of 
seven children, viz., Lydia, James, Elizabeth, Margaret, John, Lucy and Mary. 
Mr. Cotton settled on his present farm in 1867, buying eighty acres of James 
Barrett, and has since added until he has 240 acres of fine land. His union 
gave him seven children - Mary E. (the wife of James Sherry, of Iowa), Sarah 
J., Lida (the wife of Jesse Slutter, of Chicago), John J., Nicholas, Anna and 
Lillie; his wife died August 20, 1879. He has been Assessor; votes the 
Democratic ticket; his father was a member of the A., F. & A. M., and was 
buried by that fraternity.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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