Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Cole, Thompson Oakley 1844 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

THOMPSON OAKLEY COLE

THOMPSON OAKLEY COLE was born in Wakefield, England, March 6, 1844. He came to
America with his parents in 1850 when he was eight years of age. They first
located in Ohio where Mr. Cole remained until 1872 during which year he came to
Barton County. During the Civil War Mr. Cole was a member of Company K., 96th
Ohio. Among the important engagements in which Mr. Cole took an active part are
the battles of Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines, near Mobile Bay. These engagements
took place when Farragaut and his followers were forcing their way up the big
river. Upon Mr. Cole's arrival in Kansas he immediately took up the occupation
of merchandising and since that time has had a great deal to do with the
development of the soil and the upbuilding of the county. For fifteen years he
owned and managed a grocery store in Great Bend and then bought land which now
comprises his home place and consists of one-half of section 12 and one-half of
section 7 in Great Bend township. He was married in Great Bend in 1874 to Miss
Jane Hull and they are the parents of two children as follows: Herbert Lee, 33
years of age, who resides at home; Claude, 29 years of age, is a practicing
dentist in Iola, Kansas. Mr. Gale survived his first wife and in 1884 was
married to Miss Agnes Hess and to this union there was born one child, Agnes,
who is now 18 years of age and resides at home. Mr. Cole is a member of the
Great Bend lodge of Elks. On the home place is found a neat well built residence
consisting of five rooms, a barn that is 30 by 60 feet in dimensions, granaries
and all other necessary outbuildings. Mr. Cole is one of the best known men in
the county and has always been found with the progressive element in furthering
the interests of the county.



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