Son of Job and Hannah (Frye) Cole. Husband of Mary (Ball) Cole.
Born in Plymouth and moved to South Boston during the 1850s where he lived most of his life.
Graduated from Boston High School.
Married at the E. Street Congregational Church in South Boston on November 9, 1870 by the Rev. Edward A. Rand.
He was a bank president and a treasurer of the Algonquin Club of Boston. He was a member of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In 1895 Mayor Edwin U. Curtis selected Charlie to be on his commission to investigate and report upon the municipal finances in Boston and to give advice as to what adjustments should be made.
He was an incorporator and director of the United States Oil Company; in 1896 he became a director of the Salmon Gold Mining Company, with mines in Lemhi County, Idaho; in 1899 he became a incorporator and director of the Santa Fe Gold and Copper Mining Company, with mines in San Pedro, Santa Fe County, New Mexico; also in 1899 became an incorporator of the United States Mining Company, with mines in the Bingham District (West Mountain District) Salt Lake County, Utah.
"Those who know Mr. Cole, and have known him since youth, are those who praise him most highly, for he has a way of endearing people to himself, and of keeping his friends, once they are made, as friends for years. His genial manner partly accounts for this, his easy, delightful manner of conversation: he is to the highest degree a 'popular' man of the sort for whose living the world is more cheerful and indeed a better place." - Boston Home Journal, July 8, 1899.
"What is possible in the life of a man endowed with intelligence and laudable ambition and intent upon the faithful performance of the duty of the hour, appears in the achievements of Mr. Charles H. Cole…His life has been a remarkably busy one, and he now is a director in a number of business and financial concerns besides being Chairman of the Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners of the City of Boston, and Treasurer of the widely known Algonquin Club." - Dickerman's United States Treasury and Counterfeit Detector, October, 1899.
"I know him, his career, and what he has done. I know the bankers and financiers of Wall and State streets, their careers, and what they have done; and I am ready to say that Charlie Cole can have the use of my pocket-book and my confidence when he returns to State Street, while there are at least one hundred financiers of the very highest standing in Wall and State streets-men in control of insurance companies, banks, trust companies, and corporations-whom I would not allow to get to either except by brute force after a tussle." - Spoken by Thomas W. Lawson, November, 1904.
Cole Road in Hingham is named in his honor. The home that became his summer residence in 1889 had been built sometime during the 1860s and Cole first started renting it from former Governor/future Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long. Cole purchased the home from Long in 1893. It remained in the Cole family until the 1920s. This house still stands at the corner of Otis Street (along Route 3A) and Cole Road. It was once part of the upper slope of land known as Oakhurst which was adjacent to where Long lived on the lower slope known as Windholm (now the Governor Long Bird Sanctuary) on Cottage Street. Long first boarded in Hingham in 1867 until his Windholm red-roofed residence and barn were built in 1869.
He died from tuberculosis (acute general) and pneumonia at St. Margaret's Hospital in Louisburg Square, Boston. His funeral was held at his home on Otis Street in Hingham.
Originally interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Mattapan (Lot No. 1639, Southey Walk, near Mount Vernon and Union Avenues).
Undertaker: Frederick L. Briggs
1850 U.S. Census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-64LQ-C59?mode=g&i=105&cc=1401638
1860 U.S. Census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GBS3-SCQ?mode=g&i=423&cc=1473181
1870 U.S. Census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6Q73-J34?mode=g&i=552&cc=1438024
1880 U.S. Census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YBN-9V7N?mode=g&i=12&cc=1417683
1900 U.S. Census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6QX3-VHW?mode=g&i=51&cc=1325221
Son of Job and Hannah (Frye) Cole. Husband of Mary (Ball) Cole.
Born in Plymouth and moved to South Boston during the 1850s where he lived most of his life.
Graduated from Boston High School.
Married at the E. Street Congregational Church in South Boston on November 9, 1870 by the Rev. Edward A. Rand.
He was a bank president and a treasurer of the Algonquin Club of Boston. He was a member of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In 1895 Mayor Edwin U. Curtis selected Charlie to be on his commission to investigate and report upon the municipal finances in Boston and to give advice as to what adjustments should be made.
He was an incorporator and director of the United States Oil Company; in 1896 he became a director of the Salmon Gold Mining Company, with mines in Lemhi County, Idaho; in 1899 he became a incorporator and director of the Santa Fe Gold and Copper Mining Company, with mines in San Pedro, Santa Fe County, New Mexico; also in 1899 became an incorporator of the United States Mining Company, with mines in the Bingham District (West Mountain District) Salt Lake County, Utah.
"Those who know Mr. Cole, and have known him since youth, are those who praise him most highly, for he has a way of endearing people to himself, and of keeping his friends, once they are made, as friends for years. His genial manner partly accounts for this, his easy, delightful manner of conversation: he is to the highest degree a 'popular' man of the sort for whose living the world is more cheerful and indeed a better place." - Boston Home Journal, July 8, 1899.
"What is possible in the life of a man endowed with intelligence and laudable ambition and intent upon the faithful performance of the duty of the hour, appears in the achievements of Mr. Charles H. Cole…His life has been a remarkably busy one, and he now is a director in a number of business and financial concerns besides being Chairman of the Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners of the City of Boston, and Treasurer of the widely known Algonquin Club." - Dickerman's United States Treasury and Counterfeit Detector, October, 1899.
"I know him, his career, and what he has done. I know the bankers and financiers of Wall and State streets, their careers, and what they have done; and I am ready to say that Charlie Cole can have the use of my pocket-book and my confidence when he returns to State Street, while there are at least one hundred financiers of the very highest standing in Wall and State streets-men in control of insurance companies, banks, trust companies, and corporations-whom I would not allow to get to either except by brute force after a tussle." - Spoken by Thomas W. Lawson, November, 1904.
Cole Road in Hingham is named in his honor. The home that became his summer residence in 1889 had been built sometime during the 1860s and Cole first started renting it from former Governor/future Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long. Cole purchased the home from Long in 1893. It remained in the Cole family until the 1920s. This house still stands at the corner of Otis Street (along Route 3A) and Cole Road. It was once part of the upper slope of land known as Oakhurst which was adjacent to where Long lived on the lower slope known as Windholm (now the Governor Long Bird Sanctuary) on Cottage Street. Long first boarded in Hingham in 1867 until his Windholm red-roofed residence and barn were built in 1869.
He died from tuberculosis (acute general) and pneumonia at St. Margaret's Hospital in Louisburg Square, Boston. His funeral was held at his home on Otis Street in Hingham.
Originally interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Mattapan (Lot No. 1639, Southey Walk, near Mount Vernon and Union Avenues).
Undertaker: Frederick L. Briggs
1850 U.S. Census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-64LQ-C59?mode=g&i=105&cc=1401638
1860 U.S. Census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GBS3-SCQ?mode=g&i=423&cc=1473181
1870 U.S. Census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6Q73-J34?mode=g&i=552&cc=1438024
1880 U.S. Census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YBN-9V7N?mode=g&i=12&cc=1417683
1900 U.S. Census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6QX3-VHW?mode=g&i=51&cc=1325221
Inscription
COLE
CHARLES H. COLE 1847‒1906
MARY L. BALL HIS WIFE 1851‒1918
E. MORTON COLE 1873‒1892
FRED S. COLE 1878 ‒ 1883
EDWARD BALL COLE 1879‒1918
MAJOR U.S.M.C. BURIED AT BELLEAU WOODS, FRANCE
CHARLES H. COLE 1871‒1952
GRACE F. BLANCHARD HIS WIFE 1883‒1949
Gravesite Details
Section F, Lot 27, Plot 2.
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