WI BIO - COLE, Ed W.

History of Lafayette County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 
760

Ed W. COLE, collector, Town of Gratiot, was born in Gratiot [Lafayette 
County, Wisconsin] on 11 July 1849; lived at home until he was twenty-one 
years of age, when he was engaged in a store for himself one and a half years 
at Riverside [County, Wisconsin]; was agent of the Mineral Point Railroad one 
year; was Deputy Sheriff and Constable nine years; owned town property and 
three acres of land.

His [Ed W. COLE's] wife, Mary E. WEBB [a maiden name?], was born in 
Pennsylvania in 1855; married 1873, and have two children: (1) Nettie, born 
01 January 1875; and (2) Edith, born in February 1877, died in March 1877. 
In politics [Ed W. COLE is a] Republican; in religion, liberal; was Census 
Enumerator for 1880 of the town; member of Shattock's Northwestern Detective 
Agency.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly