Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Cossens, James , Farmer, Fortifications, Alma. Mr. Cossens was born in May, 1833, in Forfarshire, Scotland, and came to Port Chalmers by the ship “Nelson” in 1863. He settled in the Clutha district, where he worked a mill for twelve years. Later on he took up farming till the flood of 1878. Mr. Cossens then sold out, and removed to the Oamaru district, where he invented a machine to quarry the well-known white stone, and worked the patent for fourteen years, when he disposed of his interests. Two years later, he bought twenty-six acres at Alma, on which he has erected a comfortable stone house, with a good view of land and sea. Mr. Cossens was married, in 1870, to a daughter of the late Mr. Charles Smith, of Forfarshire, Scotland, who came to New Zealand by the ship “E. P. Bouverie.”