Milton Cole
Milton Cole, farmer, P. O. Garrettsville, was born in Nelson Township, tbis county, February 23, 1836; son of Jedediah Cole (see sketch of J. Cole), a native of Vermont, who was twice married. In March, 1835, he was married (second occasion) to Parthena (Sanford) Hamlin, born in Harrington, Conn., April 10, 1810, who bore him five children: Milton; Francis, in Lorain County, Ohio; Mrs. Aurilla Thompson, in Garrettsville, Ohio; Mrs. Cordelia Bancroft, in Michigan, and Edwin S., born in 1848, and died in his seventeenth year. Jedediah Cole is deceased; his widow still survives. Our subject received a common school education, and has followed farming all his life, still living upon the old farm originally settled by John Noah, the eighth settler in Nelson Township. On April 22, 1863, our subject was married to Miss Jennie M. Doty, born in New York State April 22, 1840, daughter of Ebenezer and Rebecca (Pierce) Doty, natives of Massachusetts, both now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Cole are the parents of one daughter—Lottie M., born March 5, 1864. Our subject is an active member of Portage Lodge, No. 436, I. O. O. F.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885