Cottman, Joseph S
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 16, 1803, in Somerset county, Md. He served in the Maryland legislature; was a presidential elector in 1849, and was a member of congress from 1851 to 1853. He died in 1863 in Somerset county, Md.
COTTMAN, VINCENDON LEZARE, naval officer, was born Feb. 13, 1852, in Ascension Parish, La. In 1884 he was appointed lieutenant of the United States navy, and in 1889 was secretary of the international marine conference at Washington, D. C.