Clinton N Cotton
Clinton Neal Cotton
American
Clinton N Cotton was an American banker and city mayor who is notable for promoting and developing a national interest in Navajo, Hopi and Zuni arts and crafts. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1859/04/12 | Ruth Mary Neal Cotton, wife of Liberty Leslie Cotton, gives birth to a son, Clinton Neal Cotton, in Howard, near Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States. | Born | Howard, OH | Ohio | |||
| 1882/03/22 | Mary Alice Crain, the daughter of a college professor, marries Clinton Neal Cotton at the home of her parents in Howard, Ohio. The newlyweds will depart for New Mexico in the same afternoon. The union will produce at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. | Groom | |||||
| 1884/09/00 | C N Cotton buys 50 percent of Hubbell's trading post in Ganado, Arizona, from J L Hubbell, sheriff of Apache County. As "Hubbell and Cotton", Cotton will learn the business of Indian trading and the Navajo language. | Work | Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site | Ganado | |||
| 1885/00/00 | Cotton persuades Navajo workers to weave large thick blankets, including one that is 12 feet by 18 feet 2 inches, to be sold as rugs. | Work | Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site | Ganado | |||
| 1885/00/00 | Dye manufacturer, Wells and Richardson of Burlington, creates easy to use dyes for 'Hubble and Cotton' Navajo rug makers in New Mexico by combining dye and mordant in one package. These will later be marketed as 'Diamond Dyes'. | Work | Wells-Richardson District | Burlington | |||
| 1888/00/00 | A five room adobe residence is built at 406 W Aztec St in Gallup, New Mexico, for C N Cotton. It will be expanded many times to include a parlor, bowling alley and, maybe, the first indoor bathroom in Gallup. The Territorial style home was razed in 1984. | Home | |||||
| 1888/02/00 | With over 100 in stock, C N Cotton advertises heavy coarse Navajo blankets for sale at 35 cents per pound. | Work | Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site | Ganado | |||
| 1894/00/00 | C N Cotton sell his interest in 'Hubbell and Cotton' to Hubbell to open his own wholesale company in Gallup, NM, close to many Indian reservations. His two most popular commodities with native traders are Arbuckle's Coffee and Pendleton Blankets. | Work | Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site | Ganado | |||
| 1894/00/00 | C N Cotton establishes his own wholesale Indian trading company. The C N Cotton Warehouse, built of adobe at 101 N 3rd St in Gallop, New Mexico, with stairs leading up to the entry porch of the stepped gable, storefront facade, has since been razed. | Work | Gallup Commercial Historic District | Gallup | |||
| 1896/00/00 | C N Cotton publishes an illustrated catalogue of Navajo blankets. Cotton sends advertisements to dealers in the East, such as Tiffany and Company in New York, to San Francisco, and to Denver, Colorado. | Work | Tiffany and Company Building | New York City | |||
| 1905/00/00 | A US Government contract to supply feed, oats and salt to the Navajo, Hopi and Zuni tribes valued at $156,261 is awarded to C N Cotton. | Work | Halona Pueblo | Zuni Pueblo, NM | |||
| 1906/00/00 | The US Federal Government awards C N Cotton $207,900 in contracts to provide feed and oats to Indian schools in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico. | Work | University of New Mexico Lodge, Building 219 Albuquerque Indian School | Albuquerque | |||
| 1919/12/12 | C N Cotton's wife, Mary Alice Cotton, takes ill and travels to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, for treatment. Mrs Cotton will return home, and pass away before Christmas. | Widow | Mayo Clinic Buildings | Rochester | |||
| 1920/00/00 | Every month, C N Cotton host large chili dinners for his office staff at the C N Cotton Warehouse (lost) at 101 N 3rd St, Gallop, NM. Cotton also entertains his guests with stories about the early days. | Host | Chief Manuelito Sculpture | Gallup Commercial Historic District | Gallup | Texas Chili | |
| 1936/09/20 | Clinton Neal Cotton dies in his adobe home (lost) in Gallup, McKinley County, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 77. Mr Cotton is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, Los Angeles. | Died | Hollywood Cemetery | Los Angeles |
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