Morton G Cogswell

1846 - 1921  (74 years)

• Name	Morton G Cogswell
  Birth	9 Dec 1846	Nova Scotia
  Gender	Male
  Census	1871	Lakeville, Kings, NS ; age 25, born NS, farmer, living next to parents
  Census	1881	Lakeville, Kings, NS ; age 34, born NS, farmer
  Census	18 May 1887	Spokane Co, WA ; age 40, born NS, farmer
  Census	8 Jun 1900	Fairfield, Spokane, WA ; age 53, born Dec 1847 in NS, married 35 yrs, imm in 1885, farmer, parents born NS/NS
  Census	21 May 1910	South Moran, Spokane, WA ; age 63, born CAN, married 44 yrs, imm in 1888, general farmer, parents born CAN/CAN
  Census	19 Jan 1920	Valleyford, Spokane, WA ; Mort, age 73, born NS, imm in 1884, mat in 1889, widowed, invalid, parents born NS/NS, living with son
  Death	8 Feb 1921	Sharon, Spokane, WA
  Burial		Fairview Cemetery, Rockford, WA
  Person ID	I1624	Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart, Descendants of Francis & Elizabeth (Peck) Perkins
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2020

  
  

  Father	Gideon Cogswell,   b. 17 Jan 1805, Halifax, Nova Scotia d. 9 Apr 1879, Cornwallis, Kings, NS (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Lucilla S. Perkins,   b. 1810, Horton, Kings, NS d. 31 Mar 1894 (Age 84 years)
  Notes	In 1871 census, Sarah, age 19, born NS living in household. (possible grandchild)
  Family ID	F391	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Amelia “Minnie” Corbet,   b. 2 Oct 1844, Nova Scotia d. 3 Jan 1918, Sharon, Spokane, WA (Age 74 years)  [1]
  Marriage	1867	Cornwallis, Kings, NS
  Children	+ 1. Alice Cogswell,   b. Aug 1868, Cornwallis, Kings, NS d. 1903 (Age ~ 34 years) + 2. William Edward Cogswell,   b. 27 Jan 1869, Woodville, Kings, NS d. 2 Mar 1931, Walla Walla Co, WA (Age 62 years) + 3. Hennie Hezekiah “Henry” Cogswell,   b. 10 Dec 1873, Woodville, Kings, NS d. 18 May 1961, Spokane, Spokane, WA (Age 87 years) + 4. Bud Gideon Cogswell,   b. 22 Nov 1874, Woodville, Kings, NS d. 2 Nov 1960, Jerome Co, ID (Age 85 years) 5. Andrew Jackson Ross “Ross” Cogswell,   b. 19 Jan 1887, Spokane, Spokane, WA d. 20 Aug 1966, Spokane, Spokane, WA (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F1088	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Feb 2012

  
  

• Photos

  Morton G Cogwell Image of Morton Cogswell from House of Representatives Group Photo taken on 1909

  
  

  Headstones

  Morton Cogswell Gravestone b. 1846, d. 1921, Father Plot: 299-G-Old

  
  

• Notes

  from "The Spokane Spokesman-Review", 10 Feb 1921 (newspapers.com) Cogswell - Morton Cogswell, age 75, a resident of eastern Washington since 1885, died yesterday at his home in Sharon. He is survived by four Sons, W.E. Cogswell of Walla Walla, H.H. Cogswell of Idaho, B.G. Cogswell of Espanola, and Ross Cogswell of Sharon. The body is at the New England rooms. from "An illustrated history of Spokane county, state of Washington" by Jonathan Edwards MORTON COGSWELL, a pioneer of 1885. is a native of Nova Scotia, born December 9, 1846. He received his education in the schools of that province and later engaged in farming. While there he held, for ten years, a commission under Queen Victoria as peace ofificer. Subsequently he spent a year in Minnesota, then returned to Nova Scotia and remained until 1885, when he came to Spokane county and engaged in farming. The next year he removed to Moran prairie and he lived there for the ensuing three years, then came to Rockford, where he followed the hotel business two years, kept a livery stable for one and then a saloon for two. In 1892 his liquor business was burned out and he moved onto his farm eight miles southeast of Rockford. Mr. Cogswell is an enterprising and industrious man and has a fine farm of rich, productive land, well improved and furnished with a splendid house and barns and other necessary buildings. Indeed, he deserves rank among the most thrifty and successful farmers of the county. He was married, in Nova Scotia, January 15, 1868, to Miss Amelia Corbett. a native of that province, and they have five children: Alice, wife of Fred Sheldon, of Olympia; William, a farmer and blacksmith; H. H.. a drayman in Spokane; Budd G., a farmer, and Andrew T. R-

  
  

• Sources

  [S73] Canadian Census 1881, Roll: 13173 Page: 25.