THE POLSON-CHENEY FAMILY

        Husband: Jacob Anthon "Jake" Cole
           Born: 30 MAR 1842 in Switzerland County, Indiana
        Married: about 1882 in Fresno, Fresno County, California (4)
           Died: 19 JUL 1909 in Fresno, Fresno County, California
         Buried: 1909 in Clovis Cemetery, Clovis, Fresno CO, California
         Father: Adam Cole
         Mother: Ann Elizabeth Shull
        Spouses: Lucinda A. Darnold; Lenore Darnold
     Occupation: Farmer and Real Estate Salesman
           Wife: Sara Russell
           Born:
           Died:
         Father: 
         Mother: 
        Spouses:
Children
01          (F): Effie June Cole
           Born: 07 JUL 1881 in Clovis, California
           Died: 05 DEC 1958 in Sonoma County, California (1)
        Spouses: William W. Behymer
02          (M): Oscar Wiles Cole
           Born: 17 OCT 1883 in Clovis, California
           Died: 25 AUG 1958 in Fresno County, California (2)
        Spouses: Gertrude Alice Cabot
03          (M): Ora C. Cole
           Born: 18 APR 1887 in Clovis, California
           Died: 12 DEC 1971 in Fresno County, California (3)
        Spouses: Inez Wyman

Additional Information

Jacob Anthon "Jake" Cole:

Notes:
In 1860, Jacob left his boyhood home in Indiana for Kentucky.

Jacob and Lenora were listed on page 544 of the Milford Township, Riley County, Kansas 1870 Federal Census. Jacob, 28, was a farmer with real estate valued at $600.00. His personal proerty was valued at $30.00. Alvin was 7 at the time of the census.

Jacob moved to Fresno in 1873 where he began wheat farming. He was a progressive farmer, who along with his nephew Clovis N. Cole, were the first persons in Fresno to purchase and successfully operate a combined harvester.

In 1876?, Jacob sold his farm to his son, Alvin, and moved into Fresno. He entered into the Real Estate business with his brother H.S. Cole and F.M. Chittenden. They formed a firm called Cole, Chittenden and Cole. Upon retirement, Jacob moved back to the farm.

Jacob had a severe case of grippe about a month before he died. The grippe resulted in an abscess just behind his left ear. An Operation was performed, and the abscess was removed. However, Jacob's advanced age made him unable to stand up to the rigors of an operation, and he grew weaker until his death.

Footnotes

  1. California Department of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research Vital Statistics Section, RootsWeb.com (http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi).
    Behymer, Effie Jane.
  2. Ibid.
    Cole, Oscar Wiles.
  3. Ibid.
    Cole, Ora C.
  4. A Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California (1892, Lewis Publishing, Chicago, Illinois), 376.

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