Henrietta Cotton Wilson (1847–1915) was the wife of former

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E. Willis Wilson Emanuel Willis Wilson (August 11, 1844May 28, 1905) was the seventh governor of West Virginia, elected in 1884, and serving from 1885 to 1890. When the West Virginia Legislature disputed the election of 1888, both Governor Wilson and State Se ...

and served as that state's

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, 1885-1890. She was born in 1847, at

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, a daughter of prominent medical doctor John T. Cotton and Sara Ashton Fitzhugh Cotton. In 1874, she married

. She was the first governor's wife to serve an entire term at Charleston. She died at Charleston in 1915."West Virginia's First Ladies," West Virginia Division of Culture and History, June 2007.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Henrietta Cotton 1847 births 1915 deaths People from Charleston, West Virginia First ladies and gentlemen of West Virginia