Person:Aljaman Cole (1)

From S1:

Letter written by Aljaman A. Cole:

In the month of November, 1826, father emigrated to the town of Ashford, attaraugus county, New York, and settled on one hundred acres of land in what as then known as the Holland purchase. I lived at home with father until I was nineteen years of age, when I went to the city of Troy, New York, and lived with my Uncle Reuben and Aunt Chloe Cole. I went to school with my cousins, Dennison and Russell Cole, commencing in November, and returning to my father's the following August. I stayed at home until I was twenty-two, and then went to Bolivar, Alleghany county, New York, and studied medicine with Dr. E. C. Pool. From there I went to Springville, Erie county, and studied for two years with Dr. B. A. Batly. I then studied in Buffalo with Dr. Horace Mellin Conger for abou ta year and six months, when I obtained from the censors of Erie county my diploma to practice medicine.

I then emigrated and settled in Richmond, McHenry county, Illinois, on August 12, 1844. I practiced my profession there for three years, when I moved to Utica, Winnebago county, Wisconsin, where I obtained forty acres of land, which I worked as I could, besides attending to my practice in the neighborhood. After about three years I sold out and removed to what was known as the Indian lands, now known as the town of Marion, Waushara county, Wisconsin.

I settled on one hundred acres of land there about the middle of May, 1850, built me a log house, and went to work clearing, fencing, and breaking my new home.

When the town was organized I was deputized as town clerk, and was elected to that office eight years in succession. I have been superintendent of schools and supervisor several times. I did not give my attention to the practice of my profession, as I wished to make farming my main business, but I had to go out some among the sick in my immediate neighborhood, but did it without thought of remuneration.

After some years I was compelled to sell my farm, when I bought a stock of drugs and opened business in Waukaw, where I am now located. I was married to Allyna Ann Sanders, June 22, 1845.

My wife Allyna died January 26, 1881. On November 18, 1883, I married Ester Evelina Mills, of Waukaw.

Thus I have had various experiences in the journey of life. When I take a retrospective view of my past life, and see how I have been led and influenced by an over-ruling Power beyond my own, I see and feel that God is good, and deserves my every effort to love and obey His mandates while life shall last.

                                                                                                                                          Aljaman a. Cole.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Cole, Frank T. The early genealogies of the Cole families in America: (including Coles and Cowles) with some account of the descendants of James Cole, of Hartford, Conn., 1635-1652, and of Thomas Cole, of Salem, Mass., 1649-1672. (Columbus, Ohio: Hann & Adair, 1887)
   p.264-265.