Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Cottrell, Newman H. February 7, 1856 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

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NEWMAN H. COTTRELL
	In the estimable citizen of whom we now speak there is set forth a man 
of wide experience, whose acquisitive nature has given him a fund of general 
information which he has been enabled to turn into practical account that has 
placed him in a commanding position, in which he so demeans himself that his 
store of wisdom is made of benefit to his fellow men, thereby accomplishing 
grander results than if he was occupied in amassing millions.
	He was born in Baltimore, on February 7, 1856, where his father was a 
retired business man and died when his son was three years of age.  He then 
was taken by a farmer and stock raiser of the same county, Wesley Green, with 
whom he lived until he was twenty-one years of age.  During this time he was 
given a fine education, both in mental training and practical business 
operations.  He visited the West Indies and South America coast on a business 
trip in company with Mr. Green’s son, and in many other ways received an 
extensive business experience.  When he arrived at man’s estate he turned 
toward the west as the place most fitted for him to begin enterprises.  His 
first point was Hamilton county, Ohio, near Cincinnati, where he followed 
farming one year.  The next year he went to Cass county, Illinois, where he 
followed farming one year, after this he went to Brooklyn, New York, and 
became general manager of Mr. M. M. Green’s coffee polishing mill.  The 
following year he returned to Sangamon county, Illinois, and engaged in 
farming for a year, and from that place he came to Umatilla county in 1881.  
Here he purchased four hundred and eighty acres near Pilot Rock, and is still 
occupying it
and is in the stock business and gives especial attention to a new device for 
shearing sheep, by which machine one man is enabled to shear one hundred sheep 
in one day.  Mr. Cottrell was the first man to introduce these machines west 
of the Rocky mountains and is now operating twenty, which gives a daily 
capacity of two thousand head of sheep.
	On September 23, 1895, at Pendleton, he was married to Miss Eva O. 
Beitel, a native of Illinois.  They have one child, Marie A. Cottrell, born 
July 25, 1897.  Mrs. Cottrell’s father, E. F. Beitel, lives upon his ranch 
near Pilot Rock.  Fraternally our subject is affiliated with United Artisans, 
Lodge No. 10, at Pilot Rock.  Mr. Cottrell takes an active interest in the 
political matters of the county and at large and is well and favorably known 
both by his enterprise and faithful uprightness.


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.


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