Bio: Cota, Joseph (1881)
Contact: Janet Schwarze. 

---Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin,, pg. 207.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JOSEPH COTA

JOSEPH COTA, proprietor " Eau Claire" saloon, Chippewa Falls, came to Wisconsin in 1861. and located at this place; was employed in the woods for eight or nine years, and was on the police force for six years; opened present business in 1877. He was born in Canada in 1835; came to the United States in 1856, and was engaged in lumbering in Minnesota, Married at Chippewa Falls, in the Winter of 1869, to Jane Beyon, who was born in Canada. They have five children - David, Matilda, Libby, Alice and Charles.