W.W. Cotton 1859-1918

COTTON, COLLINGWOOD

Posted By: Mike Kearney (email)
Date: 12/9/2007 at 16:55:27

The Clinton Herald Tuesday March 19, 1918 p. 8 W.W. Cotton, valuation counsel for the Union Pacific and Salt Lake railroads, died at the Hotel Darby in Los Angeles, Cal., last Wednesday, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Cotton was born in Lyons in 1859. In 1888 he was united in marriage with Miss Fannie Collingwood, and they went west to live. Mr. Cotton was rated as one of the leading lawyers of the northwest and had considerable business interests in Portland, where he was general counsel for the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation company, and where he had practiced law since 1899. Death was caused by a severe cold contracted while at Los Angeles on a business trip last September and from which he never recovered. Leaving his post of duty the day after Christmas, the sufferor and his wife went to Los Angeles, where Mr. Cotton hoped he might be cured. He and Mrs. Cotton spent the winter months touring southern California with at health resorts.