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Bios Cortland CoNY Cole,Aleroy p249

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Book of biographies : this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Cortland County, N.Y.

p. 249-
... By trade, he was a mason. He came from New england and stopped in Cooperstown, Otsego County, NY, where our subject's (A. Leroy Cole) father (John C cole), was born.
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He (Azor) lived to be one hundred (100) years old, lacking three months. His (Azor's) wife died in middle age, leaving only two children, Azor L., and John C. ... he very soon purchased a tract of land in Lime Hollow, where he built a log house... He cleared a large farm, being assisted in this work by his two sons. He made the first quick lime in the county on his farm, and ever afterwards the locality was known as Lime Hollow.

John C. Cole, the father of out subject, learned the trade of a mason from his parent, but did not follow it up very much, being chiefly engaged in carrying on farming. Rather late in life he sold his property in Lime Hollow and moved to Potter County, PA, where he bought and cleared another new farm. He broke his leg when advanced in years, and the subsequent sickness, for the bone refused to set, resulted in his death at the age of 88, in 1850. After the death of his first wife, Joanna Edgecomb, he married Betsey McNish, who lived to be 46 years old, and bore him these children:

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