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Excerpt from Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts, Vol. 3: Tercentenary Edition, a Classified Work, Devoted to the Country's Remarkable Growth in All Lines of Human Endeavor; More Especially to Within a Period of Fifty Years James cotter, one of the best known real estate and insurance men of Lyrin, Massachusetts, has been identified with the insurance business for many years in various capacities, beginning as an agent for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, of Brooklyn, New York, and: rising through various promotions to the office of district superintendent. He has now for many years been engaged in the real estate and insurance business for himself, in Lynn, Massachusetts. Mr. Cotter is of Irish birth, the Cotters being a family of shoemakers in Ireland, where Patrick Cot ter, father of Mr. Cotter, followed the trade when shoes were made entirely by hand. He came to the United States when his eldest son, William J., was a lad about fourteen years of age, and after remain ing in this country for about a year, working in a shoe shop, returned to Ireland with, as his friends said, Yankee ideas, and established a general store, provisions, and a livery business, which was very successful. He is now retired, at the age of eighty-six, and his wife, Johanna (creedon) Cotter, is still living, sharing with him the fruits of the long years of well-directed labor which secured the marked success of his business venture. William J. Cotter, the Son, who came to this country with Patrick Cotter, remained in this country, where he became the superintendent of a large shoe factory. His health failing later, however, he returned to County Cork, where he died. Patrick Cotter mar ried Johanna Creedon, and they were the parents of thirteen children, nine sons and four daughters. Five of the sons came to this country, but all of the daughters remained in Ireland. Among the sons who settled in the United States was James, the sub jcet of this sketch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.