Background
Cotton, Jesse Lee was born on April 28, 1862 in Pulaski, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William and Eliza Ann (Kerchoff) Cotton.
Cotton, Jesse Lee was born on April 28, 1862 in Pulaski, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William and Eliza Ann (Kerchoff) Cotton.
Bachelor of Arts, Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, 1885. Graduate Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 1888. Post-graduate study, same, 1888-1889.
Doctor of Divinity, Grove City (Pennsylvania) College, 1904.
Doctor of Laws, Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, 1918.
Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1889. Pastor Slippery Rock and North. Liberty, Pennsylvania, 1889-1893, Parnassus, Pennsylvania, 1893-1895, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, 1895-1908. Instructor Semitics, Princeton (New Jersey) Theological Seminary, 1907-1910.
Professor Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis, Louisville (Kentucky) Presbyterian Theological Seminary, since 1910.
Married Lizzie Hickman Miller, June 6, 1889. Children: Eliza Ethelwyn (deceased), John Vincent, William Miller, Jesse Lee (deceased), Gladys Hickman.