Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Coles, John H 1822 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co IL 1882

John H. Coles, shoemaker, Gardner, was born in Delaware County, Penn., 
February 5, 1822; son of Enoch and Margaret (Henderson) Coles. The father, a 
native of New York State, was a shoemaker, born in 1792, and died in 1854. The 
mother, a native of the State of Delaware, was born in 1802, and died March 
17, 1879. Our subject received a common-school education, and at the age of 
twenty-one learned the trade of a shoemaker. In September, 1857, he came to 
Gardner, and continued at his trade. In September, 1848, he was married in 
Pennsylvania, to Miss Mary E. Hart, born in that State January 23, 1823; she 
died January 22, 1861, and was the mother of five children - George, Henry A. 
(both deceased), Mary E., John A. and William F. Mr. Coles was again married, 
April 10, 1862, to Mrs. Martha J. Dunmore, born March 1, 1826; she has four 
children, viz., Jessie M., Elwood A., Herbert M., and Nathan E. Mr. Coles was 
the first President of the Board of Trustees of Gardner, and was also the 
first Police Magistrate of that place; has been Town Clerk about twelve years, 
and Township Trustee four terms; has had the commission of Notary Public about 
seventeen years, and is now serving his fifth term as Justice of the Peace; he 
has always been a strong temperance man; has been a member of the M. E. Church 
forty years, and has belonged to the Republican party since its foundation; 
his wife is a Presbyterian.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers, p87

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