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Lanny Nunn
15 Fevruary 2021 · Coudersport...

Charles Cole - Maxine Shear
at 408 Mill Street, Coudersport

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Ken Cole
Great Uncle Charles, at the house @ 408 Mill St. The Shear house is in the background.
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Angela Howard
Ken Cole
Wish there was a pic of the house at 408 Mill St.
We lived there too. Grigsbys
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Linda Setzer Cole Lohr
Oh WOW that's awesome! I wonder how old they were or the year...? So young!!
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Mike Thierfelder
Maybe 1935 plus or minus a couple?
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Robert Hau
Tom Shears mother
I guess it would be Charlie Coles dad or uncle.
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Ken Cole
Right Bob, our fathers Uncle.
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Brenda Kenealy Williams
What a super picture
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Don Betz
wow
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Georgiana Gillon Kiely
WOW That was awhile ago
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Gretchen Songster
Great photo!!
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Paul Lynn Gardner
Many of us knew Maxine, maybe a few knew Charles. Love the photo.
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Linda Setzer Cole Lohr
Paul Lynn Gardner Maxine looks like 10 or 12 years old.
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Linda Marie
I worked for Maxine at the Ice Mine summers through high school. Very nice to work for treated me like a daughter.
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Linda Setzer Cole Lohr
Awesome car in the background too.
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Joanne Regg Simmons
The benefacter (Charles Cole) of the Coudersport, Pa.Hospital. Nice photo.????????
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Richard Neefe
Great post Lanny.
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Netra Magill Baker
Oh my
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Deb Bliss Plummer
Laurie Shear
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Millie Jones
Charles Cole ~ was he a physician or a politician ????
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Ken Cole
Neither. He was just a local philanthropist who sold IBM machines in the early days & had enough sense to buy stock in the company.
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Millie Jones
Ken Cole Thanks I always thought he was a physician & I am 83 & old enough to remember the ‘old small’ Coudersport Hospital ... My daughter-in-law has been @ Charles Cole Memorial about 42 years plus ...
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Ken Cole
My mother, Nettie, was a nurse there, old & new hospitals, for about 30 years, I believe.
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Lugene Clara Heimel
Paul and I now live in the Shear home which we purchased in the late 1980's.
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Paul Lynn Gardner
Upon his death, Charles Cole bequeathed $6,000,000 to the community, replacing the Potter County Memorial Hospital. That hospital has since been expanded to the campus we see today.
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Paul W. Heimel
Paul Lynn Gardner Do you have any knowledge as to the particulars of that bequest when it came to providing health care to the poor? Was there a fund established to ensure that his wishes were honored? I have always heard that but, so many years later and with the UPMC merger, I've heard little mention of that.
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Mary Durst
Paul W. Heimel , I also had that understanding, but I believe that, like the government, over the years, adminitrators at the hospital saw fit to use that fund for more important things.
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Paul Lynn Gardner
Paul W. Heimel I personally didn’t know Charles Cole, however his widow was known to many of us in the 1960s after the “big news” broke. Ken Cole can probably confirm this, but knowledge of his wealth wasn’t revealed until his death and everyone said that Charley himself didn’t even know how much he was worth. All I remember was that it was big news to this humble community. I do not recall anything being said of “health care to the poor”, but instead simply building a new hospital took the headlines.
Since moving to Blair County, I coincidentally have come to know the third generation of the family “JC Orr” that built the original hospital in Coudersport. Joseph Orr III remembers traveling to Coudersport in the ‘60s with his grandfather during the construction. Joe III has since taken over the business and has contracted some of the recent improvements to the hospital. They also did rehab work on the Iron Bridge behind the Consistory.
Checking out the hospital website, I found the following:
“Charles Cole was born in June 1876 and grew up in the Coudersport area. He showed an early aptitude for sales and began a career selling pianos and organs for Smith Music Company in Olean, N.Y. His association with John Patterson, then president of the National Cash Register Company, brought him in contact with Thomas Watson. When Watson set out to establish his own business, the Rochester Time and Recording Company, he sought Cole as a salesman. Cole enjoyed great success with the company and was encouraged to reinvest part of his salary in company stocks. This company became International Business Machines, or IBM.
By late 1920, Cole had retired and returned to his beloved Coudersport. Few in the community knew of his wealth until his death in 1961, when the extent of his fortune became known. Cole left instructions that his estate was to fund a much-needed community hospital. Through the generosity of his widow, the former Edith Pinney, the Cole Memorial opened in September 1967. Mrs. Cole later married a Chicago surgeon, G. Howard Irwin, and both maintained philanthropic interest in the hospital until their deaths in the 1990s. Many of the new buildings, including the Irwin Rehabilitation Center and the Irwin Medical Arts Center, have been funded by the charitable trusts they established to help meet the medical needs of the community far into the future.”
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James Mitchell
Maxine is my aunt and my mothers side. My mother is a Shear
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William Fricke
James Mitchell That's Alice's old house.
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