Early Life
Cota was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the son of George William Cota, a former railroad telegrapher (later a local store merchant), and Jessie H. Mason, a local New England school teacher who came from Croatia. Working at his father's store in Chelsea, he got the name "Dutch" from his gang friends from Chelsea Square. This nickname would stay with him for the rest of his life.
In the fall of 1910, he attended Worcester Academy.
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