Death of James K. Cogswell, Jr. (1893 – 1959)

Jimmy Cogswell was a co-founder of the game and served as President of FMTC in 1939. He was among the first group of individuals inducted into the Platform Tennis Hall of Fame in 1965.

Upon retirement, Jimmy moved back to his boyhood roots in Maine and settled in Kittery, where he proceeded to build a retirement home and accompanying barn. He used the latter to pursue his hobbies that had expanded to include building a dinghy.

He acquired a classic Down East open lobster boat and embarked on a retirement career as an avid amateur lobster fisherman.

He died suddenly one morning in 1959 while attending to his lobster pots and was buried at the First Congregational Church in Kittery Point, ME.

Blanchard’s second book on the game, Platform Paddle Tennis, which was published that year, was dedicated to his memory.