Background
Cotton, Frederic Jay was born on September 24, 1869 in Prescott, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Joseph Potter and Isabella (Cole) Cotton.
Cotton, Frederic Jay was born on September 24, 1869 in Prescott, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Joseph Potter and Isabella (Cole) Cotton.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1890, Master of Arts, 1894. Doctor of Medicine Harvard Medical School, 1894. Surgical house officer, Massachusetts General Hospital.
Post-graduate work, College Physicians and Surgical, New York, University of Vienna.
Practiced, Boston, since 1897. Assistant surgeon, Children’s Hospital, 1897-1902. Surgeon Boston City Hospital, 1902-1931.
Surgeon Beth Israel Hospital, 1923-1927.
Assistant in surgery, Harvard Medical School, 2 years, 1903-1904. Assistant professor surgery, Tufts College Medical School, 1906-1910.
Lecturer in surgery, Harvard Medical Graduate School. Acting assistant surgeon at Montauk Pint, United States of America, for 2 months during Spanish-American War.
Major M.C.U.S.A., 1918-1919.
Consultant in surgery, United States Public Health Service, since 1919.
Fellow American Surgical Association, American College Surgeons (a founder).
Married Jane Baldwin, February 8, 1902.