page_title: Roswell F. Cottrell
section_title: Calvert B. Cottrell
hierarchical_section_title: Roswell F. Cottrell / The Cottrells of Rhode Island and their Seventh Day Baptist Heritage / Calvert B. Cottrell
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of C. B. Cottrell Press Manufacturing plant, Westerly, Rhode Island. In early days, Seventh Day Baptist Cottrell closed his business on the Sabbath.
context_page_description: Roswell Fenner Cottrell is a preacher, counselor, writer, hymnist and poet who came from a family of Seventh Day Baptists. He was the son of John Cottrell and Mary Polly Stillman After joining the sabbatarian Adventists who eventually organized the Seventh-day Adventist Church, he became one of their leading advocates.
context_section_description: Calvert B. Cottrell established a printing press manufacturing plant in Westerly. He practiced the Seventh Day Baptist faith and never operated on Saturdays in those early years.  The branch of the Cottrell family living in Westerly, Rhode Island, have been observers of the Seventh-day Sabbath for more than three centuries.
caption: Cottrell Press Manufacturing, 1889. Seventh Day Baptist Calvert B. Cottrell closed his business on the Sabbath in the early days of his business.
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