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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [184-187]

           THOMAS COLE, farmer, section 8, Huron Township, was born Jan. 1,
        1848, on the Isle of Man, Eng.  He is the son of CHARLES and MAR-
        GARET (GALE) COLE, and the latter is living in Huron Township, Erie
        Co., Ohio, with one of her twin sons.  She also is a native of the
        Isle of Man, and was born Nov. 18, 1814.  The father was born April
        12, 1815, and died Dec. 18, 1871, in Huron, Erie Co., Ohio.  He was
        a hatter by trade, but passed the later years of his life in farm-
        ing.
           Both parents were of Danish descent, and arrived on the shores
        of the United States June 5, 1852.  They proceeded to Concord Town-
        ship, Lake Co., Ohio, and later to Oxford, Erie Co., Ohio where the
        son who is the subject of this sketch grew to manhood.  He was
        about four years of age when his parents came to America.  He re-
        mained on his father's farm until a little less than three years
        previous to his removal to Michigan.  At that time he went to Mar-
        garetta Township in Erie County, and rented a farm on which he re-
        sided until the fall of 1879.  He took possession of a farm of 60
        acres in Huron Township on the 18th of November, on which he now
        resides.  In the spring of 1883, he bought 40 acres more.  At the
        time of the fire of 1881 he had cleared ten acres, and had a good
        house and barn, both of which were burned with all their contents
        and wearing apparel, save one trunk, containing business papers and
        valuables.
           MR. COLE is a Republican in political faith.  He has been School
        Assessor five years, and in 1881 was School Superintendent.
           He was married May 26, 1870, to LAURA B. STRONG.  All the chil-
        dren, seven in number, that have been born of this union, are liv-
        ing.  JESSE L. was born April 21, 1871; BELLE M., July 10, 1872;
        ARCHIE A., Oct. 10, 1874; CEDELIA M., Feb. 24, 1875; JOHN E., Oct.
        11, 1877; ELVA R., June 25, 1879; EDNA G., May 24, 1881.  The par-
        ents of MRS. COLE, ANDREW and CEDELIA (PARRISH) STRONG, are de-
        ceased.  The mother was born in 1829 and died in Placerville, Cal.,
        in 1856.  The father was born in 1824, and his death occurred Dec.
        4, 1870, in Lenawee Co., Mich.  MRS. COLE was born April 22, 1848,
        in Wisconsin.  She and her husband belong to the Methodist Episco-
        pal Church.

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