Denver Graded Union of Sunday-school Teachers; third vice-pres. of the Jane Addams Progressive Club of Denver. Mem. Nat. Child Labor Soc, Children's Hospital Ass'n, Y.W.C.A., Woman's Club of Denver, Women's Educational Club. Recreation: Story-telling. Methodist. Favors woman suffrage. Progressive in politics.
COTHREN, Marion Benedict (Mrs. Frank Howard Cothren), 173 S. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Lawyer; b. Brooklyn, N.Y.; ed. in schools of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Vassar Coll., A.B. 1900; Columbia Univ., A.M. 1901; m. Brooklyn, N.Y., June 29, 1904, Frank Howard Cothren. Teacher in N.Y. City and Topeka, Kan., 1901-03; admitted to N.Y. Bar 1909. Mem. Teachers' Salary Com'n of Board of Estimate and Apportionment, N.Y. City. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. College Equal Suffrage League, Equal Franchise Soc. of N.Y. ; vice-chairman Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Party. Mem. Women's Trade Union League; chairman Brooklyn Juvenile Court Com. Pres. the Civitas Club; vice-pres. Liberal Club; mem. Women's University Club (N.Y. City), Portia, Daughters of the Seventeenth Century.
COTTEN, Edythe Johns (Mrs. Bruce Cotten), Cylburn, Station L, Baltimore Co., Md.
Born Baltimore, Md.; dau. Henry Van Dyke and Annie (Davis) Johns; m. (1st) John Tyson of Baltimore; (2d) Bruce Cotten of N.C. Episcopalian Mem. Colony Club of N.Y. City, Baltimore Country Club.
COTTEN, Sallie Southall (Mrs. Robert R. Cotten), Bruce, N.C.
President North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs; b. Lawrenceville, Va.; dau. Thomas James and Susanna (Sims) Southall; grad. Greensboro (N.C.) Female Coll., 1864 (chartered 1844); m. Murfreesboro, N.C, 1866, Robert R. Cotten; children: Agnes Le Roy, Bruce, Lyman Atkinson, Sallie Dromgoole, Preston Sims, Elba Brown. Was lady manager for N.C. at Chicago World's Fair, on both National and State boards, also for Atlanta and Charleston Expositions. Believer in organized womanhood; served many years in Nat. Congress of Mothers (hon. vice-pres. of that organization). Author: The White Doe, a poem relating the legend in regard to Virginia Dare, first white child of English parents born in America, and has written many other minor things, short stories, essays, etc. Episcopalian. Mem. Daughters of the Confederacy, King's Daughters, Nat. Congress of Mothers, N.C. Fed. of Women's Clubs (pres. 1911-13), and many local ass'ns and societies. Recreation: Reading. For 12 years was pres. End-of-Century Club in Greenville, N.C; honorary mem. N.C. Sorosis of Wilmington, N.C, also of Woman's Club of Raleigh, N.C; Woman's Club of Goldsboro, N.C, and Woman's Club of Atlanta, Ga.
COTTLE, Marion Weston, 220 Broadway, N.Y. City.
Lawyer; b. Buffalo, N.Y.; dau. Octavius O. and Fannie (Petrie) Cottle; grad. St. Margaret's School, Buffalo, N.Y.; special student Wellesley Coll.; N.Y. Univ., LL.B. '04. Admitted to N.Y. Bar, 1905; N.H., 1906; Mass., 1908; Me., 1910; has practiced law since 1905. Pres. Oct. 1909 to Oct. 1912, Woman Lawyers' Club of N.Y., mem. Com. on Library and Publications of N.Y. County Lawyers' Ass'n; mem. N.H. Bar Ass'n; has law offices in N.Y. and in North Conway, N.H. Admitted to practice in U.S. Supreme Court, 1911. Registered patent attorney; specializes in surrogate's court and bankruptcy practice, also real estate law and management of incompetents' estates; court, lawyer and rarely loses a case. Has received various appointments from judges. Lecturer on suffrage, mem. N.Y. State Woman Suffrage Ass'n, Coll. Equal Suffrage League, North Conway, N.H., Suffrage Club, etc. Asso. editor Woman Lawyers' Journal. Engaged as special lecturer in Law of Domestic Relations at Washington Coll. of Law, Washington, D.C. for seasons 1912-13. Mem. Tau Zeta Epsilon Soc, Wellesley Coll., Woman's Political Union. Recreations: Horseback riding, golf, mountain climbing. Owns country home at Intervale, N.H., with Miss Cedelia M. Cox, of Boston.
COTTMAN, Cary Chubb (Mrs. J. Hough Cottman), 1015 Cathedral St., Baltimore, Md.
Born Washington City; dau. C. St. John and Eliza (Warrington) Chubb; ed. Miss Hawley and Madame Buer's Schools, Washington, D.C.; m. Washington, James Hough Cottman; children: G. Warrington, Elizabeth Stewart, Mrs. Richard Hatton, Thomas E. Mem. Colonial Dames, D.A.R., Thomas Johnston Chapter. Clubs: Arundell (Baltimore), Colonial (Washington, D.C). Episcopalian.
COTTMAN, Susan Powell (Mrs. Clarence Cottman), winter, 5 W. Biddle St., Baltimore; summer, Caves-Wood, Garrison P.O., Md.
Born Loudoun Co., Va.; dau. Edward Burr and Cordelia Sothoron (Armstrong) Powell; ed. private schools and tutors; m. Nov. 25, 1885, Clarence Cottman; children: James Stewart, b. 1896; Eleanor Brooks, b. 1898; Clarence, b. 1900; Llewellyn Powell, b. 1902. Author of short stories of Southern life, Shade o'My Ancestors; contributor to Comic Sketch Club. Mem. Colonial Dames of America, D.A.R., Green Spring Valley Hunt Club, Baltimore Country Club. Episcopalian.
COTTON, Elizabeth Jane, 2818 Ashland Av., Indianapolis, Ind.
Teacher, author; b. Sherburne Falls, Mass., Oct. 11, 1857; dau. Charles Ward and Ellen M. Cotton; grad. high school, Portsmouth, Ohio; Teachers' Training School, Cambridge, Mass. Teacher in public schools of Indianapolis since 1885. Author: Young Folks' History of Greece and Rome; Young Folks' History of the Middle Ages. Pres. Fortnightly Study Club.
COTTON, Hattie Elizabeth (Mrs. Aylett Rains Cotton), 2514A Clay St., San Francisco, Cal.
Born Williamsport, Pa., Oct. 7, 1854; dau. Joseph Thompson and Anna Mary (Steuart) Walker; ed. public schools, Davenport, Ia.; m. Clinton, Ia., Nov. 20, 1873, Aylett Rains Cotton; children: Aylett Rains Jr., Steuart Walker, Mrs. Claudine Cotton Warren. Mem. and one of the founders and pres. (1905-06) of California Club (a civic club); mem. and one of the founders of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Soc. of California Pioneers (pres. 1911). Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage; organized the second suffrage club at her house about 18 years ago (Susan B. Anthony and Dr. Anna Shaw being present); acted as chairman all through the campaign for the Sixth Amendment, which was lost; was one of the Board of Directors in the Woman's Franchise League, one of the large organizations working in the winning campaign for woman suffrage in California. Republican.
COTTON, Mary Hannah, 165 W. Ninety-seventh St., N.Y. City.
Physician; b. Portsmouth, Ohio, Dec. 28, 1866; dau. David Barnes and Mary Cone (Slocum) Cotton; grad. Women's Med. Coll. of Pa., M.D. '88. Examiner for N.Y. Life Insurance Co. Mem. Am. Med. Ass'n, Med. Soc, State of N.Y.; Women's Med. Soc, State of N.Y.; Med. Soc, County of N.Y.; Women's Med. Ass'n, N.Y. City. Mem. D.A.R., Toy Spaniel Club.
COTTON, Mary Slocomb, 303 Court St., Portsmouth, Ohio.
Born Marietta, O., 1863; dau. Silas and Deborah Parkard (Cone) Slocomb; ed. Marietta, O., High School and Rossiter Sem.; m. Dr. David Barnes Cotton; children: Grace, Mary, Katharine (Mrs. E. E. Spark, wife of pres. of Pa. State Coll.), Ethel. Has been pres. Children's Home Soc. from the beginning until the county took charge of it as provided by Ohio laws. First Regent D.A.R. in Portsmouth; ex-pres. Woman's Club, ex-pres. City Federation of Clubs. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Active in church and society. Mem. Reading Club, Magazine Club (of which has been sec. for 40 years), Woman's Club, Joseph Spencer Chapter D.A.R., named for her ancestor, Gen. Spencer, one of Washington's aids in the Revolution (five Revolutionary officers in family).
COUCH, Nancy Henrietta (Mrs. M. H. Couch), Senoia, Coweta Co., Ga,
Born Lee Co., Ga,, Jan. 14, 1845; dau. Benjamin Franklin and Marguerite (Cameron) Couch;
