{"id":11755,"date":"2013-11-24T23:40:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T05:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11755"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:24:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:24:52","slug":"cotten-leon-decasto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/cotten-leon-decasto\/","title":{"rendered":"COTTEN, Leon DeCasto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CITY: Sparta<\/p>\n<p><strong>COTTEN, Leon DeCasto<\/strong>, physician; born Pollard, Tenn., Dec. 26, 1874; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>John and Sarah (Wright) COTTEN<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation teacher; paternal grandparents <strong>Thomas A. and Matilda (Britt) COTTEN;<\/strong> maternal grandparents <strong>James and Nellie (Hutson) WRIGHT<\/strong>; educated at Sparta Tenn., High School; educated in medicine, University of Nashville, Tenn., M.D., 1902; in early life taught school; married <strong>Florence McDOWELL<\/strong>, 1900; member I. O. O. F., W. O. W., M. W. A. F. E. V. &amp; U. of A. M.; Democrat; member of Christian church.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Source: Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CITY: Sparta COTTEN, Leon DeCasto, physician; born Pollard, Tenn., Dec. 26, 1874; Scotch-Irish descent; son of John and Sarah (Wright) COTTEN; father\u2019s occupation teacher; paternal grandparents Thomas A. and Matilda (Britt) COTTEN; maternal grandparents James and Nellie (Hutson) WRIGHT; educated at Sparta Tenn., High School; educated in medicine, University of Nashville, Tenn., M.D., 1902; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[803,4407,541,134,4062,4419],"tags":[193,3775,2234,2426,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-11755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-houston","7":"category-surname-c","8":"category-university-of-nashville","9":"category-white","10":"category-whoswho","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-britt","13":"tag-cotten","14":"tag-hutson","15":"tag-mcdowell","16":"tag-wright","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12901,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755\/revisions\/12901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}