Editing Marchant family (section)

==Arthur and Louise Marchant Cottingham==
We know relatively little about Louise Marchant Cottingham. She attended Columbia Women's College and was active in the Columbia College Club; she was active in the Women's Society of Christian Service at her church, Buncomb Street Methodist.

A. H. Cottingham Sr. Was originally from Dillon. He attended Clemson; after graduation in 1904 he worked at the Victor Mill in Greer, then took a position as overseer in the card room of Ottaray Mill in Union; then he took over as mill superintendent. He moved from there to become superintendent of the Apalache Mill in Greer in August, 1911. Just months later he moved back to Union to be supervisor of Monarch Mills. While there, the mill doubled in size and A.H. became highly respected in the industry.

In 1917, he became general manager of the Victor-Monaghan Mills. The huge company was almost a Marchant family business: at one point T.M. Marchant was president, ML Marchant was treasurer, and A.H. Cottingham general manager.

A 1920 article notes that he was president of the Greer Textile Mill Baseball League. He was a director of the YMCA.
* Arthur Hallam Cottingham, Jr., 1911-1993 (Marjorie Roberts)
* Marchant Colin Cottingham, 1914-2005 (Caroline Blackmon)
* John Luther Cottingham, 1918-1918
* Walter Lee Cottingham, 1919-2008 (Helen Dale Parrish)
* Mary L. Cottingham, 1924-2008 (Dick Newkirk)