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The Chicago Daily Tribune
Thursday, 9 January, 1919

         Obituaries
         
         COTTON - ARTHUR BAXTER COTTON, suddenly at Holland, Mich.,
       Monday evening, Jan. 6, father of CLARENCE A. of Providence,
       R.I., MRS. CHARLES A. BROWN of Hinsdale, Ill; MRS. MARTHA C.
       ROBBINS and FLORENCE M. COTTON of Holland, Mich. His age 
       was 73.
       
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         Passes Away While Seated at Supper
         
         ARTHUR B. COTTON Dies Suddenly; was in his
           Usual Health Yesterday.
           
         Had Had a Very Active Business Life;
           Lived in Holland Nine Years
           
         Death came suddenly Monday evening to ARTHUR BAXTER COTTON
       at his home at 93 West Fourteenth street. MR. COTTON was
       seated at the supper table when he suddenly passed away, pre-
       sumably as a result of a stroke of apoplexy. He had been in
       his usual health and his family and friends were not prepared
       for the sudden end to a busy life. Yesterday afternoon he had
       been about town and visiting with friends as usual.
       
         MR. COTTON would have been 74 years old on the 23rd of Jan-
       uary. He has been a resident of Holland for the past nine
       years. Born in Brooklyn, Michigan, he passed his boyhood there
       and at Clinton, Mich., where he lived on a farm. His father
       died when he was a boy and he made his way with comparatively
       few early advantages. 
       
         At the time of his marriage he was with a wholesale dry
       goods firm in New York. He was also at one time or other a
       merchant at Clinton, Tecumseh and West Bay City, Michigan.
       From the last named place he went to Chicago where he was
       sith Thompson Houston company.
       
         He helped organize the Stromberg Carlson Telephone company
       in Chicago. This company later moved its headquarters to
       Rochester, N.Y., after MR. COTTON had sold out his interest
       in it. At one time also he was in the Brybon Trimmed Hat Co.
       of Chicago.
       
         Nine years ago he came to Holland and he has spent his
       period of retirement from active business here, making
       friends and winning for himself a place in the affections
       of the people of the community. MRS. COTTON died two years
       ago last June. 
       
         MR. COTTON was a member of the local chapter of the Sons
       of the Revolution. In Chicago he was a very active worker
       in church affairs serving as elder in the Eighth Presby-
       terian church. In Holland, while deeply interested in
       church work he did not serve in an official capacity.
       
         The deceased is survived by four children and nine grand-
       children. The children are: CLARENCE A. COTTON, Providence,
       R.I.; MRS. C. A. BROWN, Hinsdale, Ill., Miss FLORENCE
       COTTON, Holland, and MRS. MARTHA ROBBINS, Holland. The
       funeral arrangements have not yet been made but will be
       announced later.
       
       {Transcriber's Note - Buried at Riverside Cemetery,
        Clinton, Lenawee county, MI.)
        
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