Will County IL Archives Biographies.....COTTON, AUGUSTUS 
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Author: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

AUGUSTUS B. COTTON, supervisor of Wheatland Township and a resident here since 

1841, was born on the Isle of Wight, England, September 14, 1828.  His father, 

William, brought the family to America in 1841 and settled in Will County, 

where the next year he bought forty acres.  This he at once began to improve.  

Later he added to the estate.  In 1861 he returned to England, where he 

continued to reside until his death in 1870.  In religion he was a Baptist. By 

his marriage to Jane Britt he had eight children, of whom our subject was the

fourth.  When he came to this locality all the surroundings were those of the 

frontier.  On this side of the river there was but one house between the Cotton 

homestead and Plainfield.  All was new. After his father returned to England he 

succeeded to the management of the farm, which he operated until about 1890, 

and then rented the land, since which time he has been retired from active 

cares.  He is the owner of two hundred and forty acres of tillable land.  

Politically a Republican, he has served his party as delegate to county 

conventions.  For thirty-four years he held office as justice of the peace, for 

ten years has been township supervisor, long served as school trustee and has 

also been town clerk.  In December, 1860, he married Georgiana Robbins, whose 

father came from England in 1843; she was born in England and died in this 

county in April, 1897.


Additional comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900


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