Frank P. Cottom and Nellie Gilson

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Husband Frank P. Cottom ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1 Aug 1866 2
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         Father: Irving H. Cottom (1840-Aft 1912) 3 4
         Mother: Anna S. Walter (      -1890) 1 4 5

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       Marriage: 20 Feb 1896 2

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Wife Nellie Gilson ^{2 6}

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         Father: Hiram Anderson Gilson (1837-      ) 6 7
         Mother: Margaret Hutchinson (      -      ) 6

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Children

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1 F Margaret Fern Cottom ²

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           Born: 3 Feb 1900 2
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2 F Anna Blanche Cottom ²

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           Born: 30 Sep 1901 2
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General Notes: Husband - Frank P. Cottom

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He was educated in the public schools of Lower Tyrone township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Valparaiso (Indiana) University, the State Normal School at California (graduate class of 1890), and Mount Pleasant Institute. He began professional life as a teacher in the public school, resigning in favor of journalism, becoming editor of the Genius of Liberty, continuing four years, then became city editor of the Daily Genius and Morning Herald. He made law a special study for several years, and on October 25, 1908, was admitted to the Fayette county bar, and became established in practice, having as partner his brother Harry, and practicing as Cottom & Cottom. He was a Democrat in politics; a member of the Grand Fraternity, the Improved Order of Heptasophs, and with his wife belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church.

1 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 329.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 247.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 245.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 396.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 246.

6 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 193.

7 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 106.