Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Cole, Ludovic R. 1847 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Ludovic R. Cole, real estate broker, of Wichita, Kan., is a native of the
Wolverine State, having been born in Michigan in November, 1847. His parents
were William M. and Mary (Simpson) Cole, natives of New York state, which they
left in 1842 and took up their residence in Oakland county, Michigan, where they
spent the balance of their days. Young Cole obtained his education in the public
schools of Michigan, and his early life was spent on a farm, which he left
early, going to Pontiac, Mich., where he was a clerk in a store for eleven
years. Following this experience he was a traveling salesman for two years,
after which he left the road and returned to the retail business in the
mercantile trade. During the years from 1876 to 1880 Mr. Cole served as deputy
register of deeds of Oakland county, Michigan, and the years from 1880 to 1884
he served as register of deeds of the same county. In 1885 he came to Kansas,
and after a trip through the Indian Territory returned to Michigan; but in the
spring of 1886 he again came to Kansas, locating at Wichita and engaging in the
real estate business, under the firm name of E. C. & L. R. Cole, which continued
in business for a year. He was one of the original board of directors of the
First National Bank. In 1896 he again entered the real estate business and
continued with the ups and downs until November, 1900, when he became manager of
the Bell Telephone Company, which position he held until 1909, when he resigned
and organized the Midland Investment Company, and has since been its manager.
During his career in the real estate business some of the large transactions
that Mr. Cole swung were the purchase of the Tremont house, at the corner of
Douglas and Emporia avenues, and the organization of the Carey Park Land Company
and the platting of Cole's addition to Carey Park. Fraternally Mr. Cole is an
enthusiastic Mason and is a member of all the Masonic bodies. He was married in
1885 to Miss Helen Bigelow, of Pontiac, Mich., and of this union there has been
issued two children, viz.: Ion C. and Wade B. Cole.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from 

History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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