Santa
Clara County
Biographies
WARREN COTTLE
Five miles south of San Jose, on the Santa Teresa grant, may be seen one of the prosperous and well-kept ranches which abound in Santa Clara county. When Mr. Cottle located here in 1879 he purchased land to the amount of three thousand acres, planting it partly to grain and also carrying on a dairy farm. Some year later, however, he deemed it advisable to change the crops in order to secure better returns and in 1896 planted twenty-five acres to prunes and assorted fruits, and as the venture proved all that could be desired, in 1900 he laid out forty acres to prunes alone. The home ranch now comprises two hundred and ninety acres, five acres being devoted entirely to fruit, for family use, and the family are domiciled in a commodious two-story residence, as comfortable a home place as is to be seen anywhere in the county. Here Mr. Cottle is living retired from active duties incident to ranch life, and is enjoying the rest which his many active years have made possible. In addition to the home ranch he also owns one hundred and ten acres on the Monterey road, two miles south of Edenvale, which is devoted to raising hay and grain, at which he leases to other parties.
In Lincoln county, Mo., June 5, 1838, Warren Cottle was born into the home of Edward and Celia (Jamieson) Cottle, the former born in Vermont and the latter in Kentucky, both dying in California. The parental family comprised eleven children, and Warren was the seventh son and youngest child. As the family removed to California when he was sixteen years old his education was interrupted somewhat, but when the family became settled he again resumed his studies. He remained at home and assisted his father on his ranch, which was located on the Coyote, near San Jose, until he was twenty-one years old, when he became interested in the cattle business, owning four hundred head of fine cattle. In company with his brother, William J., in 1859-60, he went to Alameda county and pre-empted three hundred and twenty acres of government land, located between Haywards and Amador valley, and there engaged in cattle raising until 1862. February 17 of that year he went to Portland, Ore., thence proceeding to the Salmon river mines. In the meantime he had purchased one hundred and fifty head of cattle which he took to the Grande Ronde valley in eastern Oregon. Leaving his cattle there to graze he spent the summer in the mines on Granite creek, at the headwaters of John Days creek, and in the fall butchered some of his cattle at La Grande, Ore. In 1864 he came to Tulare county, Cal., later to San Jose, and in the spring of 1865 went to Visalia, Tulare county, where he secured about one hundred and fifty head of cattle, and with what remained of the six hundred head which his herd originally comprised, he located on the ranch near Haywards which he had pre-empted some years previously. He remained there three years fattening his cattle and putting them in condition for the market, and finally sold out the entire herd. Coming to Santa Clara county in 1879 Mr. Cottle has since devoted his attention almost exclusively to the raising of grain and the various fruits which grow in such profusion throughout Santa Clara county.
In San Francisco, Cal., occurred the marriage of Warren Cottle and Miss Catherine Brophy, a native of California, and they have become the parents of four children, as follows: Celia, who became the wife of J. J. Carroll and resides in San Jose; Albert, who assists in the care and management of the home ranch; Theodore, a well-borer, who resides in San Jose; and Leo, who also resides on the home ranch. Politically Mr. Cottle is a Republican.
Transcribed
7-7-15 Marilyn
R. Pankey.
ญญญญSource: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Pages 678-679. The Chapman
Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
ฉ 2015 Marilyn R. Pankey.