Cotton, W.B.

COTTON, WILKINSON

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1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

PLEASANT TOWNSHIP

Page 773

COTTON, W.B.--Physician, Ewart. Born in Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, January 31, 1852. His father, Solomon C. Cotton, was general traveling agent for several of the leading fire insurance companies. In early life our subject attended the common schools until the age of fourteen, when he moved with his parents to Hartford City, Indiana, and attended the graded school at that place. At the age of eighteen, and while pursuing his studies at the Hartford City school, he turned his attention to studying medicine. At this time his parents returned to Ohio. Dr. Cotton, having obtained considerable knowledge of the profession that he had chosen to pursue through life, then attended the Cleveland Medical College one term, after which he practiced medicine in Nevada and Cumberland, Ohio, with considerable success. In March, 1876, he came to Keokuk, Iowa, and attended the medical college at that palce one year. He then moved to Daytonville, Washington county, Iowa, where he remained eighteen months, from which place he came to Ewart, May 23, 1880. Although he has been in Ewart but a short time he is already known throughout Poweshiek county as a successful practitioner, and is numbered among the leading members of the medical fraternity in this section. He was married September 13, 1873, to Miss Maggie A. Wilkinson, of Fairview, Hancock county, West Virginia. She is a highly cultivated lady of considerable literary attainments. Their family consists of two children: Bertha May (aged five years) and Willie (age one year).