COTTON, Salem

COTTON, HARRINGTON, BROWN

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Date: 12/9/2001 at 08:41:17

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF De Witt TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) pgs 736-751

SALEM COTTON, real estate, De Witt; was born in Trumbull Co., Ohio, in 1833; his parents, John and Mary Cotton, came to Clinton Co. in 1844; his father entered the farm now owned by L. S. and N. S. Harrington; his father died in 1870, his mother several years later. Mr. Cotton married, in 1860, Mary Brown, a native of Pennsylvania; they have five children-Wickliff W., Della, Bertha, Grace and John.