Person:Albert Cottrell (6)

Albert Boardman Cottrell, son of John B. Cottrell, was born Nov. 20, 1842, in Wirt, attended Richburg Academy and Alfred University, and in 1860 commenced teaching. Enlisting in September, 1861, in Co. C, 85th N. Y., he was transferred to the regimental band and discharged in August, 1862, as Congress ordered the mustering out of all regimental bands. He re-enlisted in 1864 in the brigade band and was discharged in June, 1865. He then follwed farming a few years and taught school four years in Kansas. Returning to Wirt he was elected school commissioner in 1875, and re-elected in 1878, holding that office six years. He was supervisor of Wirt two terms, and chairman of the board of supervisors one year, and member of assembly in 1888 and 1889. He was chairman of the committee of agriculture both years, also member of the committees of ways and means, appropriations, claims and education. He has been prominently connected with local oil developments, and was one of the company that drilled the first producing oil well in the Richburg field. Mr. Cottrell is a Grand Army man, and was a charter member of Cassius Maxson Post, No. 249, of Richburg. He married, in March 1873, Isabel J., daughter of George Coon of Friendship. Children: Mary Lee, Raymond Sherman, Bernice Ruth and Max Boardman.