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William Frederick "Bill" Cotton, Sr. (October 23, 1897 – April 23, 2006), was a prominent businessman from Central Louisiana who acquired or built bakeries in five Louisiana cities - Alexandria, Shreveport, Baton Rouge, Monroe, and Natchez, Mississippi. At the time of his death at the age of 108, he was also the nation's oldest living Shriner and one of the last remaining American veterans of World War I. == Education and military service == One of eight children, Cotton was born in tiny Corley in Logan County near Booneville in western Arkansas. He graduated in 1917 from high school in Fort Smith in Sebastian County, Arkansas. He then joined the United States Navy and served as the chief commissary steward on the off the coast of France. In November 1999, he was awarded for his valor during the Great War the National Order of the Legion of Honor, the highest designation honor bestowed by the French on foreign nationals. After he was honorably discharged from the Navy in 1919, Cotton enrolled at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where he studied accounting for two years. He then went to work for Shipley Bakery in Fort Smith. In 1929, Cotton wed the former Genevieve Hathorn, who died on December 11, 1963. At the time of Cotton's death, he was married to the former Mae C. Compton (born 1918). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William F. Cotton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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