Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Cole, JOhn T. 1820 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JOHN T. COLE. Having reached his threescore years and ten our subject now gives
himself up to the material comforts of rural life to which he has long years
been devoted. Mr. Cole is a native of New York, where he was born March 29,
1820. He is a son of John and Elizabeth (Wilier) Cole, both natives of New York.
They were the parents of ten children, of whom there were six sons and four
daughters. Our subject was reared to the life of a farmer and during the years
that have elapsed since his boyhood, he has witnessed many changes in
agricultural methods that have added a great degree of comfort to farm life.

  Our subject's father was a soldier in the War of 1812. He died in 1823 and our
subject's mother later married William Hough, a native of Canada. From that
union three daughters were born. Mrs. Hough died in 1878. Our subject was reared
in his native State and was married in his young manhood to Paulina Colbath, a
native of the Empire State and to them have been born twelve children, there
being six sons and six daughters. In 1854 Mr. Cole came to Michigan and settled
in Arbela Township, Tuscola County. There were then thirteen voters in the place
and he was one of those who helped to organize the township. On arriving in the
State he had twenty-five cents, so that he found it necessary to "hustle" and
made his living for a while by cutting shingles, afterward engaging in
lumbering. He purchased a farm which he now owns on section 5, Arbela Township,
in 1857. It then comprised forty-five acres. He has since added till he now has
seventy-two acres. He set himself vigorously to work clearing his land and
erected thereon a good set of buildings.

  The original of our sketch relates that bears and wolves were numerous at the
time of his coming here and that it was not an unusual sight to see a herd of
deer, and that he has shot them from the door of his home. Mr. Cole is a
Democrat in politics and has been so from the beginning of his career. He has
been Constable and has held all the school offices. Our subject has made his
property by his own industry and perseverance, and now in his last years is
prepared to enjoy to the fullest the fruits of his early endeavor.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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