A history of Texas and Texans . ike hisfather, operated his land with slave labor prior to theoutbreak of the Civil war. He was an energetic andenterprising man and made a success of his operations,continuing to be engaged therein until his death, about1896, the mother having passed away in 1873. SamuelE. and Mollie Cottrell were the parents of nine children,of whom two died in infancy, while five still survive, andJ. D. Cottrell is the fourth in order of birth. Thefather was married a second time to Miss Mary Mundy,daughter of Lake Mundy, a brick mason and carpenterof Tennessee, and to this u
A history of Texas and Texans . ike hisfather, operated his land with slave labor prior to theoutbreak of the Civil war. He was an energetic andenterprising man and made a success of his operations,continuing to be engaged therein until his death, about1896, the mother having passed away in 1873. SamuelE. and Mollie Cottrell were the parents of nine children,of whom two died in infancy, while five still survive, andJ. D. Cottrell is the fourth in order of birth. Thefather was married a second time to Miss Mary Mundy,daughter of Lake Mundy, a brick mason and carpenterof Tennessee, and to this union there were born sevenchildren, all of whom are living. After securing his primary educational training inthe public schools of his native state, J. D. Cottrellstarted assisting his father in the work of the homefarm, but, tiring of farm life, at the age of seventeenhe left the parental roof and made his way to he took a course in the Piano Institute, at thattime one of the highest institutions of learning in the. TEXAS AND TEXANS 1713 state, being conrlucted by tbe well-known ProfessorW. F. Mister and Professor T. G. Harris. Followingone term in that school he soon thereafter took up thestudy of law and January 15, 1895, was admitted tothe bar, and at once took up the practice of his pro-fession at Piano, which has since been his field ofendeavor. It has been said that in the legal professionthere is no royal road to promotion, its high rewardsare gained by diligent study and long and tedious at-tention to elementary principles and are awarded onlyto those who develop, in the arena of forensic strife,characters of integrity and moral worth. In that mostdifficult and perplexing of professions, the mere occuga-fion of distinguished position argues for its possessorsolid ability, signal skill, sound learning, untiring in-dustry and uncompromising integrity. It has beenthrough the possession of these qualifications that has risen to his present high posi
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