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| | Henry Cotton Biography |
 | | Henry Cotton, familiarly known throughout Westville and vicinity, as Uncle Harry and The Squire, is one of the most popular men in the place, and an especial favorite with the boys. |
 | | His father, Robert Cotton, was born in the vicinity of Beardstown, KY., and immigrated to this county in the fall of 1822, during the period of its earliest settlement and when few white men had ventured onto the frontier. |
 | | Hannah (Howard) Cotton, the mother of our subject, was a native of the same place as her husband and was there reared and married and became the mother of two children in the Blue Grass State. |
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