• He was known all over the lakes, although he had not sailed a boat for nearly forty years. His life was like clockwork; he was temperate and surefooted and until very recently he enjoyed excellent health and the possession of all his faculties. He was a sailor in the old days and knew all the hardships but his constitution was rugged and his nerve steady. A stroke of apoplexy brought death.
Capt. Cottrell was born in 1816. He began his life as a sailor in 1826 when he shipped on the schooner William H. Harrison, which loaded the first wheat taken to Chicago [incomplete from this point]. [5011]

• Died at home on Belle River Ave. of a stroke of Apoplexy. [3770]