The ninth son of Captain John and Lois (Davis) Cole, was born March 5, 1778, in Windham, Vermont. He was very young when his father died, and as the family was soon broken up, he experienced the hard life of the small boy who works on a farm for his board. In due time he learned the carpenter's trade, and worked at various places in Vermont and Massachusetts. In 1801, while working in Barre, Massachusetts, he married Lucinda Witherell, of that town. She was born November 25, 1777, and died April 12, 1842. For nine years after their marriage they lived in Barre. In 1810 they moved to Windham, and in 1826 to the adjoining town of Londonderry, where they remained the rest of their lives. Mr. Cole died December 14, 1854, aged seventy-six.