Researching Henry Cotton
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 7149 people with the Cotton surname? In that year Cotton was ranked number 569 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Henry means "ruler of the home" and is of German origin.
Records of Henry Cotton on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Henry Cotton in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Henry Cotton and the Cotton Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Cotton Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Cotton family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 8520 people with the Cotton surname in the UK? Cotton is now ranked number 690 for popularity in the UK. |
Cotton Family Tree Databases
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Cotton Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 42535 people with the Cotton surname in the USA? Cotton is ranked number 143 for popularity in the USA. |
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Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Henry Cotton. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
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Henry Cotton (doctor)
Henry Andrews Cotton (May 18, 1876 – May 8, 1933) was an American psychiatrist and the medical director of New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton (now the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, previously the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum) in Trenton, New Jersey from 1907 to 1930.
He and his staff practiced experimental surgical bacteriology on patients, including the routine removal of some or all of patients' teeth, their tonsils, and frequently spleens, colons, ovaries, and other organs. These practices continued long after careful statistical reviews falsified Cotton's claims of extraordinarily high cure rates, and demonstrated very high mortality and morbidity as a result of these aggressive and dangerous measures. As well as the medical horrors he forced upon the patient/victims, Cotton still instituted many progressive ideas after becoming medical director of the Trenton State Hospital at the age of 30. These included abolishing mechanical restraints and implementing meetings of daily staff to thrash outpatient care.
His enthusiasm for the scientific medicine that was taking hold at the opening of the 20th century led him to an unshakable belief that mental illness of all kinds was the result of untreated infections in the body. Based on the observation that patients with high fever often turn delusional or begin hallucinating, Dr. Adolf Meyer introduced Cotton to the possibility of mental illness (then viewed as the cutting edge concept of scientific medicine) being a biological cause of behavioral abnormalities, in contrast to eugenic theories which emphasized heredity and to Freud's theories of childhood traumas. Cotton would become the leading practitioner of the new approach in the United States.
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