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(VII) Elizabeth Bailey Tyler, third daughter of Austin and Almira (Kingsbury) Tyler, was born September 15, 1822, and died April 26, 1868. She was educated in Dr. A. A. Miners' School at Unity, New Hampshire. She married, May 12. 1853, Sam- uel W. Howe, of Boston.
(VII) Frederick Austin, second son of Austin and Almira (Kingsbury) Tyler, was born Decem- ber 10, 1824, and died in Claremont, February II, 1890. He was educated at Unity, New Hampshire, Military Academy. Mr. Tyler had a very successful
business career as a hotel man, being manager of the Pemberton Square House, Boston, of the Wash- ington House, Lowell. Massachusetts, and afterward for many years a member of the firm of Taft, Tyler & Greenleaf of the Flume and Profile Houses, White Mountains. He lived quietly in Claremont after his retirement from business, and from his ample means he assisted many unfortunate people who will long remember · him with genuine gratitude. Like his father, Austin Tyler, his integrity was unques- tioned.
(VII) Ellen Almira Tyler was born May 29, 1827, and died March II, 1900. She was a teacher in the Claremont public schools and a member of Trinity Episcopal Church. She married, January 18, 1854, in Trinity Church, John Leonard Lovering, of Quechee. Vermont. (See Lovering, VII).
(VII) Sarah Frances, daughter of Austin and Almira (Kingsbury) Tyler, born in Claremont, New Hampshire, December 27, 1834, educated at Thet- ford Academy, Thetford, Vermont. Married, De- cember 25, 1855. Joseph K. Egerton, of Quechee, Vermont. She died at Northfield, Vermont. March
9, 1886. Children : Editlı Kingsbury Egerton, Frederick Tyler Egerton.
(V) Jolin, son of Colonel Benjamin and Me- hitable (Andrews) Tyler, married Mary Giddings.
(VI) John (2), son of John (I) and Mary (Giddings) Tyler, born in Claremont, New Hamp- shire, March 28, 1818. He was early left an orphan and went to Barre, Vermont, where he learned the trade of millwright. He settled in West Lebanon. New Hampshire, in 1850, and for several years did a large and lucrative business in building mills. He returned to Claremont in 1872, where he was well and favorably known as an inventor and builder, being descended from a long line of emi- nent mechanics. He was engineer and superintend- ent in building the Sugar River Paper mill and was principal stockholder and president of the company. He also built the grist and sawmills at the Lower Village. Mr. Tyler was the inventor, 1856, of the iron Tyler turbine water wheel, the first iron water wheel ever made, since which time he has been granted nine patents for improvements on it. These found their way all over the country and some were sent to Europe. For years these wheels were con- sidered the best turbine wheels manufactured, this fact being thoroughly developed some years ago by a comparative and competitive test of the products of other makers of similar wheels. He was also in- ventor and patentee of Tyler's copper cylinder washer, for washing paper stock. In 1874 he built the reservoir on Bible Hill, putting in an aqueduct system, now known as "Tyler Water Works," which supplied the town with fresh spring water for household purposes. He was much interested in making Lake Sunapee what it is today and opened his purse wide for its improvement; he was a stock- holder in the Ben Mere Inn, also of the Woodsum Steamboat Company. ITe was a far-seeing and sagacious business man and greatly interested in the improvements of his native town. He was a staunch Republican and was a member of the legislature 1891-92 and his record was a clean one. He was a public-spirited, genial man and in his death Clare- mont lost a worthy citizen. He was a lover of good horses and and in his fine stables could be found always the best blooded and handsomest to be had. He was a most liberal man and no worthy cause was brought to his notice that failed to re- ceive assistance at his hands. He died at his home, November 28, 1896. He is survived by his widow,
John Dylan
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who was Miss Anna Maria, daughter of Taylor and Sybil (Lawton) Alexander, of Hartland, Vermont. (V) Benjamin (2), son of Colonel Benjamin (1) and Mehitabel (Andrews) Tyler, was born in Claremont, February 27, 1771, and died February 17, 1826. He was probably associated with his fa- ther in the purchase of one-half of Ascutney Moun- tain, and later with his brothers John and Noah, succeeded to the extensive business of quarrying mill stones. The farm given him by his father is now a part of the village of Claremont. He mar- ried Anne Smith. of Powlet, Vermont. Their chil- dren were: Cynthia, John, Benjamin, Benonia, Anna Smith and Maria.
(VI) John (3), son of Benjamin (2) and Anne (Smith) Tyler, was born in Claremont, April 8, 1802. He died January 13, 1886, in the first framed house built in town, where he had lived many years, at West Claremont. He learned the millright trade of his father, and followed it for many years. Mr. Tyler was a representative in the New Hampshire legislature in 1850-51 and warden of Union Church ( Episcopal). as his father and grandfather had been before him. He was a man who stood high in the community for his personal worth and ability. John Tyler married (first), November 12, 1830, Mary S. Webster, daughter of Dr. Thomas and Sarah (West) Webster (see Webster, V). He married (second), Jeanette Berry. The children by the first marriage were John Henry, Charles Webster, James Andrews, Mary Anna and Austin. By the second there was one son Hoel. All were born in Clare- mont. I. John Henry was born October 12, 1832, and died unmarried, January 29, 1890. He was a merchant, and later in the hotel business in New York City. 2. Charles Webster was born Septem- ber 17. 1834, and died February 15, 1902. He was a prominent instructor of instrumental music in New York, teaching harp, piano and organ. He married G. A. Simonson. 3. James Andrews, born August 12, 1836, was educated at the public and high schools of Claremont. New Hampshire, and when a young man learned the trade of machinist and worked at this at various places, mainly in Springfield and New York, for about fifteen years. In 1871 he en- gaged as salesman in the hardware business on a commission basis, and for over thirty years has represented the firm of Herman Baker & Company, of New York. He is a very successful business man. He married Maria Frederika Clement. Au- gust 17. 1875. 4. (VII) Mary Anna, only daugh- ter of John (3) and Mary S. (Webster) Tyler. was born July 22, 1843. She was educated in the public schools of Claremont and at a Young Ladies' School in Hanover, New Hampshire. She is an Episcopal- jan. January 7, 1880, Mary Tyler married Daniel Webb Johnson, for many years a leading citizen and prominent business man of Claremont. (See Johnson, third family, VII). 5. Austin Tyler, born January 16, 1848, died April 21, 1901. He followed the hotel business on Mount Washington and in New York. July 21, 1881, he married Mary Reed Tyler, a distant cousin. She is still living (1906). They had two daughters. Mary Lucy and Sarah Emily, both of whom graduated from Vassar Col- lege 1906. 6. Hoel Tyler, only child of John (3) and Jeanette Berry Tyler, was born December 19, 1855. He studied medicine and is a successful phy- sician in Redlands, California (1906).
COLE This name was quite numerously repre- sented in the early settlement of Massa- chusetts, and there are numerous prolific families bearing the name now scattered throughout
the United States. It has been prominently identi- fied with bench and bar, with all the learned pro- fessions, and with various occupations in life, con- tributing no small share to the development and progress of the nation.
(I) William Cole was very early in the Mas- sachusetts Bay Colony, and had a grant of two acres of land at Mount Wollaston, January 23, 1637. In June, 1640, he was granted forty acres at Hampton, and had one share of the common lands there in 1646. He resided for some time at Wells, Maine, and was constable of that town in 1645. He returned to Hampton, and died there May 26, 1662. in his eighty-second year, being then in indigent circumstances. Ile took the oath of allegiance to the Massachusetts jurisdiction at Wells, July 6, 1653. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Doughty, a merchant of Bristol, England. Dow's History of Hampton states that his widow was named Eunice, and it is quite possible that he may have had a second wife. She was reputed a witch. His children included John, Nicholas, Wil- liam, and probably others.
(II) Nicholas, son of William Cole, was born in 1636 probably in America, and was but a child when his father settled in Wells, Maine. He signed a petition there in 1656. and was constable in 1658. He was appointed ferryman at Cape Porpoise river in 1664, agreeing to keep the ferry seven years, His children included the following : Nicholas. Jane and Ann.
(III) Nicholas, second son of Nicholas (1) Cole, born 1656, resided at Wells, where lie was killed by Indians May II, 1704. There is no record of his marriage or family.
(IV) Thomas, probably a son of Nicholas (2) Cole, was a resident of Kittery, Maine. where he was married to Martha, daughter of Christian Remick. She administered his estate in 1725. His children were: Daniel, Hannah, Abigail, Asahel, Remick, Jernsha, Charity, Abial and Robert.
(V) Robert, youngest child of Thomas and Mar- tha (Remick) Cole, was born probably in Kittery, and passed his life in that town. He was mar- ried (first), November 22. 1726, to Phebe Shep- herd. She did not live long, and his second wife was Martha (surname unknown). He was mar- ried (third), January 22, 1765, to Mrs. Ann Cot- tle ; and (fourth), in October, 1775, to Mrs. Agnes Weeks, who survived him. His will was made in 1784. His children were: Robert, Ezra, Remick, William. Ichabod, John. Phebe, Mary, Thomas and Simeon.
(VI) Ichabod, fifth son of Robert Cole, and probably child of his second wife Martha, was bap- tized April 14, 1757, in Kittery, and was married there November 8, 1770, to Elizabeth, daughter of Captain John and Hannah (Fernald) Gowell. She died in October, 1834. aged about eighty-five years. Their children were: John. Gowell, Ichabod, Eliza- beth. Nabby, Eli, Mary, Robert. Nancy and Wil- liam.
(VII) William, youngest child of Ichabod and Elizabeth (Gowell) Cole, was born March 1, 1791, in Kittery, probably in that part which is now Eliot. Maine, and was married in Kittery, May 24. 1820. to Polly Brooks, of Eliot. Their children were: Wil- liam G., James D., Rose, Mary and Oliver B.
(VIII) William Gowell, eldest son of William and Polly ( Brooks) Cole, was born in Elliott, Maine, September II, 1822. He was a tanner and currier in Portsmouth and Biddeford until about 1866, when his health becoming impaired he engaged in farming in Hampton, New Hampshire, where he
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has since resided. He filled the office of tax collec- tor of Hampton twenty years, and represented the town in the legislature in 1888. He is a member of the North Church (Congregational) of Ports- mouth, and is one of the four original pew own- ers. He married (first), February 23, 1851, Han- nah Toby Brooks, of Elliott, Maine. She died in Portsmouth, April 30, 1860. He married (second), November 16, 1862, Susan Leavitt Page, of Hamp- ton. daughter of Josiah and Susan L. Page. His children by the first wife were: Everett Sumner, who died in 1868, aged fourteen. Myron W., Abbie I., the wife of S. Albert Shaw, of Hampton. (See Shaw, VII). The children of the second are : Anna M., a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, class of 1888, and now a teacher in Hampton Academy. Ernest Gowell, mentioned below. Hattie L., who died in 1888, aged seventeen.
(IX) Ernest Gowell, second child and only son of William G. and Susan L. (Page) Cole, was born in Hampton. June 16, 1869. After leaving the pub- lic schools he attended Hampton Academy, from which he graduated in 1888. In 1891 he graduated from the New Hampshire College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts, and went into business with J. A. Lane, of Hampton, who formed the firm of J. A. Lane & Company, dealers in general merchan- dise. Six years later (1897) Mr. Cole sold his in- terest to Mr. Lane and purchased a similar business at that time owned by J. W. Mason & Co., and has since carried on the business alone. Since 1901 he has been postmaster. He is treasurer of the Hampton Water Works Company, justice of the peace and notary public. In political faith he is a Republican. He is a member of the Congregational Church of Hampton, and has been superintendent of its Sunday school five years. He is a fraternity man, and is a member of Star in the East Lodge, No. 59, Free and Accepted Masons ; Rockingham Lodge, No. 22. Independent Order Odd Fellows, of Hampton; Huntoo Encampment, No. 59; and Friendship Lodge. Royal Arcanum. He married, June 16, 1896, at Rochester, Caroline E. Jones, who was born in Rochester, January 23, 1873, daughter of Charles and Maria (Noyes) Jones. They have one child, Ernestine Cole, born June 9, 1898.
(Second Family.)
This name appears in Salem, Massa-
COLE chusetts, as early as 1650; in Boston in 1630-1634; Plymouth, 1634; and another, the earliest in the colonies, that of James, who finally went to Connecticut with Mr. Hooker in 1635. Other settlers bearing this cognomen came early to New England.
(I) Thomas Cole was at Salem in 1650, and is recorded as a husbandman. A Thomas Cole came to Massachusetts in the "Mary and John," March 23, 1633, and was an original proprietor of Hamp- ton, and is mentioned as of that place in 1638, but whether the same individual is referred to in both cases is not certain. His will is dated December 15. 1678, and it was proved April 27, 1679. His widow Ann made her will November 1, 1679, and it was proved May 2, 1681. Their children were: Abra- ham and John, whose sketch follows.
(II) John, the second son of Thomas and Ann Cole, was born between 1640 and 1650, and was one of the inhabitants of Salem who protested against imposts in 1668. One authority says he moved to Boxford in 1717. and died "very suddenly" in 1737, aged sixty-eight years ; another says he was a cooper by trade, and lived in Salem till about 1675, when he removed to Malden, and about 1684 to
Lynn, where he died intestate, October 8, 1703. He made a will October 5. 1703, which is endorsed "Will not perfect," and was not probated, as it had but two witnesses. Samuel, the son of John Cole, of Boxford, was appointed administrator of the es- tate of his widowed mother, Sarah Cole, of Brad- ford, May 25, 1741. John Cole married, May 28, 1667, Mary Knight, who died before 1675. She was probably a daughter of William Knight. He mar- ried (second), between 1675 and 1686, Sarah Alsbee, who was tried for witchcraft at Charlestown, and acquitted February 1, 1693. John Cole's children by the first wife were: John, Thomas, Mary and Hannah; and by the second wife: Samuel and Anna.
(III) Samuel. the fifth child of John Cole, born by his second wife, Sarah (Alsbee) Cole, was born in Lynn, December 27, 1687, and died in Boxford, January 20, 1765. In 1717 he went to Boxford with his father, and for filo purchased of Ebenezer Burbank the farm on which his posterity resided until about the close of the Civil war. This was the tract of sixty-seven acres laid out to Thomas Lever in 1666. He was taxed in Boxford from 1717 to 1749. His wife Susanna, whom he married be- tween 1710 and 1720, died July 29, 1785, aged ninety- five. Their children were: Samuel. John, Rebecca, Susanna and Mary.
(IV) Samuel (2), eldest child of Samuel (1) and Susanna Cole, was probably born in Lynn, and resided in Boxford, where he died in 1805. He married Bethiah Hardy, of Bradford, October 5, 1738, and they had fifteen children: Daniel, Ben- jamin, Solomon, Phineas, Mercy, Martha. Rebecca, Eliphalet, Samuel, Margaret, Jesse and David (twins), Bethialı (died young), Simeon and
Bethiah.
(V) Solomon, third son and child of Samuel (2) and Bethiah (Hardy) Cole, was born in Box- ford, April 1, 1743. and settled in Landaff, New Hampshire, where he died in 1835, aged ninety-two. He married Mehitable Barker, of Andover (pub- lished January 8, 1766). Their children were: Timothy, Kimball, Benjamin, Isaac, John, Solomon, Samuel, Asa and Catherine.
(VI) Lieutenant Kimball. second son of Solo- mon and Mehitable (Barker) Cole, was born in . Boxford, Massachusetts, in 1780, and died there in 1822. He was usually called Lieutenant Cole. He married Abigail Runnells (published April 2, 1804). She was born in Methuen, in February, 1780, and died in Boxford, April 7, 1861, daughter of William and Rebecca Runnells, of Methuen. Their children were : Sarah Foster, Rebecca, Ephraim Foster, Mehitable Baker, Abigail, John Kimball and Wil- liam Runnells.
(VII) Ephraim Foster, third child and eldest son of Lieutenant Kimball and Abigail (Runnells) Cole, was born in Boxford, July 6, 1809, and died there April 23, 1879. He was a farmer and a life- long resident of Boxford. He married (first), Eliza Spofford, December 10, 1830. She was born in Chester, New Hampshire. and died April 25, 1832. He married (second), March 5, 1833. Sarah Spofford, who was born in Danville. New Hamp- shire, and died in Boxford, daughter of Benjamin Spofford. He had one child by the first wife, and nine by the second. as follows : Eliza Spofford, William Kimball, George Spofford, John Foster, Charles Warren, Sarah Jane, Arthur E., Joseph Franklin, Wallace W., and Roscoe Kimball. Eliza S. died young : William K., born January 6, 1834. died unmarried in Hillsborough, Iowa, October 23. 1856; George S., born July 2, 1836, resides in An-
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dover, Massachusetts; John F., born January 20, 1841, enlisted in Company F, Thirty-fifth Massachu- setts Volunteer Infantry, and was wounded and died in McClellan Hospital, Philadelphia, from the effects of his wounds, June 14, 1864; Charles W., born April 3, 1844, enlisted in Company F, Thirty- fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and died of fever at Newport News, March 3, 1863. Sarah Jane, born March 13, 1846, married Melvin T. Wad- lin, and resided in North Andover, Massachusetts, now in Methuen, Massachusetts. Arthur E., born September 30, 1848, lives in Orono, Maine. Joseph F., born September 28, 1851, resides in Andover, Massachusetts. Wallace W. is mentioned below. Roscoe K., born February 28, 1861, resides in An- dover, Massachusetts.
(VIII) Wallace Woodbury, eighth child and sev- enth son of Ephraim F. and Sarah (Spofford) Cole, was born in Boxford, Massachusetts, Novem- ber 19. 1855. He attended the public schools, and remained at home until he was eighteen years old, and then worked a short time in a carriage factory in Amesbury. The five years following he was em- ployed as a carpenter in Andover. In 1876 he re- moved to Salem, New Hampshire, where he worked for a year as journeyman carpenter, then lo- cated on his wife's father's farm and resided there twenty-five years till 1904, then came to his present home at Salem Depot. In 1879 he formed a partner- ship with Charles A. Dow, under the firm name of Cole & Dow. and engaged in the retail meat business. Subsequently Mr. Cole bought his partner's interest and carried the business on alone up to 1904, when he sold out. In 1899 he became interested in lum- bering, and has kept increasing his interests tintil now he has two portable steam sawmills in Salem and one each in York and Elliott, Maine, and cuts annually several million feet of lumber. He is a man of foresight and good judgment, and has accu- mulated a large amount of property, much of which is in valuable real estate. Without the advantage of a liberal education, his native ability has been sufficient to win success where better educated men have failed. He is a zealous Republican and a local leader of his party. He has served as chairman of the Republican town committee, has been selectman four terms. two of which he was chairman of the board; represented the town in the legislature in 1892-94. and was senator from the Twentieth dis- trict in 1905. Was chosen a delegate to the consti- tutional convention of 1900. He is an attendant of the Methodist Episcopal Church of which he is a trustee. He is also a member of Sprickett Lodge, No. 85, Free and Accepted Masons, of Salem, and has been senior warden a number of years. Mem- ber of Salem Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and treasurer of this a number of years, and also a mem- ber of United Order Pilgrim Fathers. He was also treasurer of the public library for a number of years. He married, December 24, 1878, at Salem, Ida Dow Colby, who was born in Salem, daughter of William G. and Frances (Dow) Colby, of Windham. Eight children have been born to them: Mabel. Minnie F .. Gertrude C .. Clarence WV., Edith L., Eva M., William McK. and George W. Mabel, born in Salem. Jan- tary 26. 1880, married. September 25, 1901, Aaron Alexander, of Windham. They have one child, Everett H. Minnie F. born August 25, 1882, mar- ried. September 9. 1903, Fred Weiss, and has two children : Pauline and Donald. Gertrude Colby, born September 16. 1884, married, June 21, 1905, Charles Quimby. Clarence Waldo, born January 20. 1888. Edith Lillian, horn Mav 20, 1891. Eva Mil- dred. born July 5. 1895. William McKinley, born
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September 27, 1896. George Wallace, born July 9. 1898.
(Third Family.)
There are many branches of the Cole, COLE Coles or Cowles family among the carly English emigrants to this country. The Hartford (Connecticut) line is descended from James Cole, who was born in England, came to what is now Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in 1635 joined a party which journeyed to the Con- necticut valley. under the lead of the Rev. Thomas Hooker, where they established themselves on the site of the present city of Hartford. Another James Cole landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts. He is mentioned in the Plymouth Colony records in the list of freemen of 1633, where the name is spelled Coale. He was the first settler on the eminence known as Burial Hill. He was an innkeeper for thirty years, and in 1644 he was chosen constable. William Cole was among the earliest settlers of Hampton, New Hampshire. His wife Eunice was accused of witchcraft in 1656. She is the "Goody Cole" referred to in Whittier's poem of "River- mouth Rocks." She died in a little hut in the rear of the present Hampton Academy.
(I) Joseph Cole was born in Plympton, Massa- chusetts, early in the eighteen century. It is proba- ble that he was descended from the Plymouth (Massachusetts) line, but positive proof is lacking. He was a private in Captain Perkin's company in the expedition against Louisburg. He had pre- viously married Mary He removed to Bridgewater, Massachusetts, where he died. He had ten children: Samuel, married, November 16. 1762, Sarah Packard, of Bridgewater; Ephraim, married Hannah Randall: Joseph, married Betty Southworth: Mary, married June 8, 1758, Colonel Frederick Pope, of Stoughton, Massachusetts ; Su- sanna, married Niles; Catherine, married Daniel Littlefield: Elizabeth, married Solomon Smith, of East Bridgewater ; Eleazer, mentioned in the succeeding paragraph : Sarah, married
Worthington ; Silence, born in 1755, died young.
. (II) Eleazer, fourth son and eighth child of Joseph and Mary Cole, was born April 8, 1747. He married, July 11, 1769, Lucy Shurtleff, of Bridge- water. who was born October II, 1751. The Mas- sachusetts Revolutionary rolls record him as a drummer in Captain Josiah Hayden's company of minute-men. He enlisted from Bridgewater, April 26, 1775. Later in the year he served as sergeant for three months one week and one day. The company is reported to have been encamped at Rox- bury. In after life he moved to Paris, Maine. His final home was in Greenwood, Maine. Eleazer and Lucy (Shurtleff) Cole 'had seven children. all born in Massachusetts: Calvin, married Betsey Sawn ; Phebe, born October 31. 1777, married John Bil- lings ; Silence (Tyla), married Gilbert Shaw : Cy- prian, is mentioned below : Polly, married Joseph Whitman : Lucy married Lazarus Hathaway, Jr. ; Jonathan, married Abigail Whitman.
(III) Cyprian, second son and fourth child of Eleazer and Lucy (Shurtleff) Cole, lived in Green- wood, Maine. He was a colonel in the state militia. He was twice married. His first wife was Lovicy Perham, and his second. Patty Tuell.
(IV) Laurenson, son of Cyprian Cole, was born in Greenwood Mainc. He was educated in the common and high schools. He owned a large farm in Milton, Maine, where he carried on a successful general farming. In politics he was an active Re- publican. When the Civil war broke out he was appointed captain of a company, but as he was
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past forty-five and his mother was still living, he could not serve. He was a deacon in the Baptist Church in Milton, Maine, and was highly respected by all who knew him. He married Lycena Spof- ford, daughter of and Anna (Fish) Spof- ford. They had five children: Augusta M., Virgil V., Samuel F., Edmund Chase and Lounaza Chase.
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