{"id":51882,"date":"2019-07-23T18:15:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T22:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=51882"},"modified":"2019-10-01T17:06:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T21:06:13","slug":"charles-d-cole","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=51882","title":{"rendered":"CHARLES D. COLE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pine Mountain Settlement School<\/strong>
\n Series 09: Biography<\/strong>
\nPMSS Visitor<\/strong><\/p>\n

CHARLES D. COLE<\/h2>\n

Charles D. Cole, poet and author from Harlan, Kentucky, visited Pine Mountain Settlement School was a friend of Mary Rogers a worker at the school. Mary illustrated\u00a0 Cole’s book My Land My People<\/em> (1967).<\/p>\n

The roots of the Cole family are deep in Eastern Kentucky. In Connelley and Coulter’s biographical sketch of the Cole family, in History of Kentucky, Charles D. Cole, by 1922,\u00a0 is described as the Secretary and Treasurer of Pope-Cawood Lumber and Supply Company.\u00a0 He also served as a member of the Harlan City Council and as election commissioner of Harlan County.\u00a0 For many years he was the Director of the Harlan State Bank. These are but a few of the tasks that Charles D. Cole set his mind to.<\/p>\n

Originally from Laurel County, Charles D. Cole was born\u00a0 on February 6, 1887.\u00a0 His father, Perry V. Cole and grandfather Jerome Cole settled in Kentucky in the early 1800s and for a time Owsley County, and\u00a0 Jackson County were home to the expanding Cole family.\u00a0 Following the death of Jerome Cole in Jackson County,\u00a0 the Perry V. Cole family took up residence in Laurel County where Perry farmed and taught school.\u00a0 His son, Charles D. attended public school and later Sue Bennett\u00a0 Memorial School (soon Sue Bennett College) in nearby Barbourville, Kentucky. Upon graduation from Sue Bennett, Charles showed considerable restlessness and innovation\u00a0 in locating jobs that suited his imaginative and inquiring mind.<\/p>\n

Upon graduation he bought the Mountain Advocate<\/em>, a newpaper in nearby Barbourville where he took on the role of\u00a0 editor. He then moved to bankking, serving as the assistant cashier of the First National Bank\u00a0 of Barbourville until 1913, at which time he moved to Harlan County which was at the center of the coal industry of the day and joined a multitude of other investors in the coal boom that exploded with the beginning of WWI.\u00a0 By 1917, he had divested of many of his coal interests, retaining only those at Clover Fork in Harlan County.\u00a0 From coal operator he shifted his career again, this time to real estate where he prospered.<\/p>\n

With his accumulated wealth, Cole invested in a lumber and supply comany that became well-known in the area.\u00a0 He was appointed as the Secretary and Treasurer of the large operation.\u00a0 As the Secretary and Treasurer of the Pope-Cawood Lumber and Supply Company, a position he held for many years, he prospered, and flourished politically and socially.\u00a0 He soon became the Director of the Harlan State Bank and purchased additional businesses, particularly a confectionary store on Central Street in Harlan.<\/p>\n

By the time of the\u00a0 1940 census of Harlan County, Charles D. Cole, now 53 years old was well entrenched in Harlan County business, realestate, politics and society. Like many of his family and his neighbors, Charles was a staunch Republican and a member of the Christian Church. During the War Between the States, his family had served on the Union side and the strong ties to that demographic continued to build Cole’s circle of support.<\/p>\n

Like many members of the business community in the early years of Harlan County, Cole was a Freemason and member of Harlan\u00a0 NO. 879, F. ad A.; Chapter NO. R.A.M.\u00a0 He was also associated with the K.T. [Korsair Shriner Temple] of the Duffield Commandery NO. 42 NS and the Kosair Temple\u00a0 of Harlan and the Kosair Temple, A.A.O.N.M. of Louisville, KY.<\/p>\n

On December 24, 1913, just out of college, Charles married Miss Adah Tinsley Stephens at Barbourville. The couple had two children, the oldest a son named Charles Marvin Cole and a younger girl named Irene [Doris Irene?]<\/p>\n

For his family he built a well-appointed home on Cumberland Avenue in Harlan, described in Coulter and Connlley’s biographical sketch as “… a very attractive home, a feature\u00a0 of it being the use of cobblestones in the outside chimney, porch pillars and for a wall surrounding\u00a0 the premisis.”<\/p>\n

When Charles D. Cole met Burton and Mary Rogers at Pine Mountain, he was well up in years [approximately 80 years old) but he found an appreciative friend in Mary Rogers who was well-known for her interest in publication and writing and also was a fine illustrator.\u00a0 He commissioned Mary to be the illustrator of a book of\u00a0 his poems entitled, My Land, My People<\/em> (1967).<\/p>\n

Within the collections at Pine Mountain is a framed poem written by Charles D. Cole titled “The Deserted House.<\/em>”\u00a0 The poem,\u00a0 which became a favorite of Pine Mountain was framed to be exhibited at the School sometime in the late 1960s.\u00a0 The poem was illustrated by Joe Vowell, another Harlan county resident. The illustration and the poem hung for many years in Laurel House at Pine Mountain. Now sun-faded and aged, the work as been removed to the Library archive where it can be repaired and restored.<\/p>\n

A biographical sketch of Charles D. Cole is included in William Elsey Connelley and Ellis Merton Coulter, History of Kentucky<\/em>, Vol. V, p. 501. (1922) and additional notes on the family may be found in the Louisville Courier Journal<\/em> 1987 [?]<\/p>\n

GALLERY<\/p>\n

Charles D. Cole<\/p>\n

The following note detailing the poem and the illustration is attached to the back of the frame. It reads:<\/p>\n

NOTE FROM THE DESK OF CHARLES D. COLE, PRESIDENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story of “The Deserted House” written by Chas.D. Cole<\/em><\/p>\n

The illustration was drawn by Joe T. Vowell.\u00a0 This occurred in 1920.\u00a0 Joe was a young lad.\u00a0 He lived in the Sunshine section of the city of Harlan.\u00a0 He was a natural born artist.\u00a0 His father was Mine Foreman at the Wallins Creek Coal Company in Sunshine.<\/em><\/p>\n

Joe was very ambicious [sic].\u00a0 He ran away from home and rode freight trains to Atlanta where he thought he could get a job as a cartoonist.\u00a0 He was picked up in the railway yard and put in jail.\u00a0 He sent me a telegram that he needed twenty five dollars…\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I sent it to him by Western Union, which helped him get to Harlan.<\/em><\/p>\n

To show his appreciation for what I had done for him he did the illustration for “The Deserted House”…\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I had a plate made of the drawing and have given away more than 200 copies.\u00a0 Joe said he made the drawing partly from observation, and partly from imagination.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the story of “The Haunted House”.<\/em><\/p>\n

Chas.D. Cole<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

SEE ALSO:<\/strong><\/p>\n

MARY<\/strong> ROGERS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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