FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: COLE, Nahan (published 1880)
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History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties,  Ohio
Pub by Williams Bros.,  1880

NATHAN COLE,

county recorder,  was born on September 22,  1815,  in West Bloomfield, 
Ontario County,  New York.  His parents were Nathan and Mary Cole, 
natives of New Hampshire,  who located in New York in 1808.  Here they
remained until 1817,  when they removed to Ohio,  locating temporarily
in Granville,  Licking County.  After one years sojourn at that point
the family removed to Franklinton,  this county,  where they passed the
remainder of their lives.  The mother died October 13,  1844,  and the
father on October 21,  1856.  The subject of this sketch derived his
education,  as but he might,  during the winter sessions of the district
school,  aided greatly by the teaching of his mother.  When Sixteen
years of age he became a clerk in the store of Jacob Grubb,  one of the
early merchants of Franklinton.  Here he remained until the spring of
1835,  when he went into business for himself.  He was prospering finely
when the panic of 1837 struck the county,  and having but little
capital,  he was swept away by the rapid current,  and with thousands of
others,  found himself,  when the storm had subsided,  penniless.  He
was engaged in teaching school,  and in March 1840,  entered the office
he now occupies,  as clerk for his brother,  then recorder.  He
continued here until 1846,  during the winter assisting the county
treasurer in the duties of that office.  In October, 1846,  Mr. Cole was
put in nomination for the office of recorder,  for Franklin County,  by
the Democratic party,  and elected in opposition to William T. Martin, 
a time-honored incumbent,  to the office,  and no better evidence of his
fitness can be given then that he has been continuously elected to the
office until the present period.  Mr. Cole is entitled to great credit
for the able manner in which he has remedied the damage produced
produced by the incendiary fire in his office in January 1878,  which
destroyed several volumes,  and he has ever been an efficient and
faithful officer.  On July 31,  1836,  he was united in marriage to Miss
Mary,  daughter of David and Phebe Sayles,  who were natives of
Providence,  Rhode Island.  The children are as follows:  Hannah,  who
is deceased;  Clara,  Mrs. Robert L. Willie,  Lannassa M.,  Mrs. Charles
E. Luckhaupt;  Nathan,  who married Miss Ella Say;  Mary,  Mrs. Joseph
J. Stoddart and George,  who remains at home.

Mr. Cole says he is a Democrat of the Tom Payne,  Thomas Jefferson, 
George Washington,  Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln school.
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