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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Claybrook C. Cottingham
| nationality = [[United States|American]]
|office=3rd President of<br> [[Louisiana College]] in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]]
| term_start=1910
| term_end=1941
| preceded=W. C. Friley
| succeeded=Edgar Godbold
| office2=10th President of<br> [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]]
| term_start2=1941
| term_end2=1949
| preceded2=[[E. S. Richardson|Edwin Sanders "E. S." Richardson, Sr.]]
| succeeded2=[[R. L. Ropp]]
| birth_date=May 4, 1881}
| death_date=August 17, 1949 (aged 68)
| birth_place=Ottoman, Lancaster County,<br>
[[Virginia]], [[United States|USA]]
| death_place=[[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]]<br>
'''Resting place''':<br>
Greenwood Memorial Park in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], [[Louisiana]]
| occupation=[[Educator]]; College president
| spouse=Myrtle Baker Cottingham (married 1904-1949, his death)
| children=Mary Virginia Cottingham Majors<br>
Margaret Drew Davis
Claybrook Baker<br> Cottingham, Sr.
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| alma_mater=University of Richmond (Virginia)
[[Baylor University]] ([[Waco, Texas]])
}}
'''Claybrook C. Cottingham''' (May 4, 1881 – August 17, 1949) was an [[educator]] who served as the third president of [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated [[Louisiana College]] in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], [[Louisiana]], and the tenth president of [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]].
==Background==
A son of George Cottingham and the former Louise Palmer, Cottingham was born in Ottoman in Lancaster County on the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] coast of [[Virginia]]. He was educated at Chesapeake Academy in Irvington, Virginia. He received his Bachelor of Arts and [[Master of Arts]] degrees prior to 1902 from the University of Richmond, then known as Richmond College, in the capital city of [[Richmond]]. He obtained the Doctor of Divinity degree from [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]], [[Texas]]. From 1900 to 1902, he was the assistant principal at his ''alma mater,'' Chesapeake Academy.<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-c/|title=Cottingham, Claybrook C.|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=June 10, 2020}}</ref>
==Academic career==
Cottingham moved to Louisiana to become from 1902 to 1905 a professor of [[Greek]] and [[philosophy]] at the defunct Mount Lebanon College, sometimes called Mount Lebanon University, a forerunner of Louisiana College, locatedin Bienville Parish in northwestern Louisiana. Cottingham served as the last president of Mount Lebanon from 1905–1906, when he became from 1906 to1910 a founding professor of the new Louisiana College. His tenure as LC president stretched from 1910 to 1941, when he became the tenth president of Louisiana Tech, formerly known as '''Louisiana Polytechnic Institute.'''<ref name=lahist/>
A world traveler, Cottingham was still serving at Louisiana Tech when he died at the age of sixty-eight in [[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]], where he was visiting his older daughter, Mary Virginia Majors, who lived in Mexico.<ref name=lahist/>
==Family and legacy==
On June 8, 1904, Cottingham married the former Myrtle Baker (1889-1965) of Mount Lebanon, daughter of the merchant Jesse Lewis Baker (1850-1918) and the former Mary Smith Williamson (1860-1902).<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156461243/myrtle-cottingham|title=Myrtle Baker Cottingham|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=June 10, 2020}}</ref> Their children were Mary Virginia Majors (1907-1967), Margaret Drew Davis (born 1913), and Claybrook Baker Cottingham, Sr. (1915–1991), a [[United States Navy]] commander.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106542409/claybrook-cottingham#view-photo=200883748|title=Dr. Claybrook Cottingham|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=June 10, 2020}}</ref>
A Cottingham grandson, C. B. Cottingham, Jr. (1943–2008), who served in both the [[United States Army]] and [[United States Air Force]] during the 1970s,<ref>Claybrook B. Cottingham, Jr., obituary, Singleton Funeral Home, Glen Burnie, [[Maryland]], accessed December 19, 2010</ref> died at the age of sixty-five, a resident of Hanover in Anne Arundel County, [[Maryland]]. Claybrook and Myrtle Cottinghams are interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville. A Baptist deacon, Cottingham was from 1914 to 1916, the president of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, based in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. He was also a director of Rotary International from 1930 to 1931.<ref name=lahist/>
Lynn Edward May, Jr., wrote an unpublished dissertation on Cottingham entitled "Claybrook Cottingham: A Study of His Life and Work."<ref name=lahist/>
The Claybrook Cottingham Expressway (U.S. Route 167) in Pineville is named in Cottingham's honor. A men's dormitory for honor students on the Louisiana Tech campus and a women's dormitory at Louisiana College are both named "Cottingham Hall" in his memory. The Louisiana Tech dormitory is adjacent to Richardson Hall, named for [[E. S. Richardson|Edwin Sanders Richardson, Sr.]], Cottingham's predecessor as the Louisiana Tech president.<ref>A later Louisiana Tech president, [[F. Jay Taylor]], had previously been a [[professor]] of history and an administrator at Louisiana College, but he came to LC long after Cottingham had left. Their paths would have crossed only in 1941-1942, when Taylor was a student at Louisiana Tech and Cottingham was in his first year as president there.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cottingham, Claybrook}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Virginia]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
| name=Claybrook C. Cottingham
| nationality = [[United States|American]]
|office=3rd President of<br> [[Louisiana College]] in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]]
| term_start=1910
| term_end=1941
| preceded=W. C. Friley
| succeeded=Edgar Godbold
| office2=10th President of<br> [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]]
| term_start2=1941
| term_end2=1949
| preceded2=[[E. S. Richardson|Edwin Sanders "E. S." Richardson, Sr.]]
| succeeded2=[[R. L. Ropp]]
| birth_date=May 4, 1881}
| death_date=August 17, 1949 (aged 68)
| birth_place=Ottoman, Lancaster County,<br>
[[Virginia]], [[United States|USA]]
| death_place=[[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]]<br>
'''Resting place''':<br>
Greenwood Memorial Park in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], [[Louisiana]]
| occupation=[[Educator]]; College president
| spouse=Myrtle Baker Cottingham (married 1904-1949, his death)
| children=Mary Virginia Cottingham Majors<br>
Margaret Drew Davis
Claybrook Baker<br> Cottingham, Sr.
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| alma_mater=University of Richmond (Virginia)
[[Baylor University]] ([[Waco, Texas]])
}}
'''Claybrook C. Cottingham''' (May 4, 1881 – August 17, 1949) was an [[educator]] who served as the third president of [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated [[Louisiana College]] in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], [[Louisiana]], and the tenth president of [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]].
==Background==
A son of George Cottingham and the former Louise Palmer, Cottingham was born in Ottoman in Lancaster County on the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] coast of [[Virginia]]. He was educated at Chesapeake Academy in Irvington, Virginia. He received his Bachelor of Arts and [[Master of Arts]] degrees prior to 1902 from the University of Richmond, then known as Richmond College, in the capital city of [[Richmond]]. He obtained the Doctor of Divinity degree from [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]], [[Texas]]. From 1900 to 1902, he was the assistant principal at his ''alma mater,'' Chesapeake Academy.<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-c/|title=Cottingham, Claybrook C.|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=June 10, 2020}}</ref>
==Academic career==
Cottingham moved to Louisiana to become from 1902 to 1905 a professor of [[Greek]] and [[philosophy]] at the defunct Mount Lebanon College, sometimes called Mount Lebanon University, a forerunner of Louisiana College, locatedin Bienville Parish in northwestern Louisiana. Cottingham served as the last president of Mount Lebanon from 1905–1906, when he became from 1906 to1910 a founding professor of the new Louisiana College. His tenure as LC president stretched from 1910 to 1941, when he became the tenth president of Louisiana Tech, formerly known as '''Louisiana Polytechnic Institute.'''<ref name=lahist/>
A world traveler, Cottingham was still serving at Louisiana Tech when he died at the age of sixty-eight in [[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]], where he was visiting his older daughter, Mary Virginia Majors, who lived in Mexico.<ref name=lahist/>
==Family and legacy==
On June 8, 1904, Cottingham married the former Myrtle Baker (1889-1965) of Mount Lebanon, daughter of the merchant Jesse Lewis Baker (1850-1918) and the former Mary Smith Williamson (1860-1902).<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156461243/myrtle-cottingham|title=Myrtle Baker Cottingham|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=June 10, 2020}}</ref> Their children were Mary Virginia Majors (1907-1967), Margaret Drew Davis (born 1913), and Claybrook Baker Cottingham, Sr. (1915–1991), a [[United States Navy]] commander.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106542409/claybrook-cottingham#view-photo=200883748|title=Dr. Claybrook Cottingham|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=June 10, 2020}}</ref>
A Cottingham grandson, C. B. Cottingham, Jr. (1943–2008), who served in both the [[United States Army]] and [[United States Air Force]] during the 1970s,<ref>Claybrook B. Cottingham, Jr., obituary, Singleton Funeral Home, Glen Burnie, [[Maryland]], accessed December 19, 2010</ref> died at the age of sixty-five, a resident of Hanover in Anne Arundel County, [[Maryland]]. Claybrook and Myrtle Cottinghams are interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville. A Baptist deacon, Cottingham was from 1914 to 1916, the president of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, based in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. He was also a director of Rotary International from 1930 to 1931.<ref name=lahist/>
Lynn Edward May, Jr., wrote an unpublished dissertation on Cottingham entitled "Claybrook Cottingham: A Study of His Life and Work."<ref name=lahist/>
The Claybrook Cottingham Expressway (U.S. Route 167) in Pineville is named in Cottingham's honor. A men's dormitory for honor students on the Louisiana Tech campus and a women's dormitory at Louisiana College are both named "Cottingham Hall" in his memory. The Louisiana Tech dormitory is adjacent to Richardson Hall, named for [[E. S. Richardson|Edwin Sanders Richardson, Sr.]], Cottingham's predecessor as the Louisiana Tech president.<ref>A later Louisiana Tech president, [[F. Jay Taylor]], had previously been a [[professor]] of history and an administrator at Louisiana College, but he came to LC long after Cottingham had left. Their paths would have crossed only in 1941-1942, when Taylor was a student at Louisiana Tech and Cottingham was in his first year as president there.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cottingham, Claybrook}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Virginia]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]