Bumped.
This gentleman’s wife was named Submit. They had nine kids, so I guess it fit: David Dudley Field I - Wikipedia
There’s the satirical poem about Britain’s divided support in the American Civil War, from Punch magazine IIRC:
Tho’ with the North we sympathize,
I must not be forgotten,
That with the South we’ve stronger ties,
That are composed of cotton.
The textile industry in Britain provided the impetus for financial support to the South. IIRC, the federal government sued the Brits for reparations after the war.
Paisley was a town filled with mills where a lot of single women worked, and my dad told me a joke from early in the century:
Q: What’s the difference between Paisley and Morocco?
A: IN Morocco, the moors come out of the hills…
On the subject of unusual first names, I recently learned that the man who treated President Garfield after he was shot was a doctor named Doctor Bliss.
I’m not being redundant - his first name was Doctor. And that was his birth name not something he came up with himself.
Doctor Doctor Bliss was, unfortunately for Garfield, a quack even by the standards of 19th century medicine. He didn’t believe in antiseptics, nurses, or x-rays. Garfield almost certainly would have survived his shooting if he hadn’t received any medical attention but under Bliss’ care, he was tormented for seventy-nine days and then died.
Bliss then submitted a bill for $25,000.
Not quite: Alabama Claims - Wikipedia
My favorite was Igor Judge, who became Lord Chief Justice Judge. He has since retired from the bench, so now he’s just Baron Judge.
Bumped.
Just came across a reference to this cousin and comrade of Vermont patriot Ethan Allen: Remember Baker - Wikipedia
Going back to the original OPs question about the name Cotton. I have an Uncle Cotton, that’s his name ( not nickname) I also have an Uncle Junior and an Uncle Truant. My Granny had a way with names. My Daddy’s name is Initials. That’s all just 2 letters T.A.
It’s too bad The Egg Man never caught on as a given name. How many Jaxons or Lincolns do we need?
There’s also the Civil War general Bushrod Johnson, whose name sounds like it just *HAS *to be a porn star name.
There are a series of “That’s a bold move, Cotton” type memes that are floating around these days, and they reference the idiot sports commentators in the movie “Dodgeball- A True Underdog Story”, one of whom is named Cotton.
Huh. I had always supposed that the term “cotton-eyed” referred to someone who had severe cataracts in one or both eyes.
I had also been induced to believe that the Brits’ sympathies lay primarily with the Confederacy, with the ulterior motive that a weakened U.S.A. would be a plausible target for re-conquest.
Bumped.
This Ohio legislator’s mom’s name, I recently learned, was Temperance: John Patterson Green - Wikipedia