This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it
just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not
researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these
families or these surnames. NOTE: I don’t know if there is any additional
mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this
book. I am typing the biographies from it.
Typed by Lora Radiches:
Other surnames mentioned in the biography of Russell E. COLE are; Cole,
Auten, Ball, Popham, Elliott,
Russell E. COLE, pathologist, is one of Muncie’s prominent members of the
medical profession, but since locating in that city most of his time and labors
have been taken up with his specialty. He is pathologist to the Ball Memorial
Hospital. Doctor Cole was born at Fredericktown, Knox County, Ohio, May 19,
1879, a son of W. W. and Alice (Auten) Cole. His parents were born and lived out
their lives in the same county, his mother being a daughter of Jacob Auten,
who went to Ohio from Pennsylvania. Doctor Cole’s paternal grandfather, Henry
Cole, was born in Connecticut. W. W. Cole passed away in the spring of 1926 and
is buried at Fredericktown, where his widow resides. They had a family of
seven children, Russell E., Edna, Evan, Arden, Myra, Beulah and Harold. Arden Cole
is now superintendent of schools at Darby, Montana. Dr. Russell E. Cole was
an Ohio farm boy, and at an early age decided that his vocation should be that
of medicine. He made good use of his advantages in home schools and later
entered the Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, where he was graduated.
For a short time he practiced in the village of Democracy in his home county,
and then moved to Newcastle, Indiana. Doctor Cole located at Muncie in 1914.
Soon after beginning practice in this city he opened a private laboratory for
pathological research. Later he was made pathologist for the Home Hospital, a
publicly supported institution at Muncie. With the opening of the magnificent
Ball Memorial Hospital, built with a gift of a million dollars from the Ball
family, Doctor Cole was invited to take charge of the laboratory as pathologist at
the institution, and his experience and habits of thoroughness have made him
one of the most valuable members of the personnel of the hospital staff.
During the World war Doctor Cole was a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps,
and while with the army was given opportunity for special work in his chosen
field. For a time he was stationed at the Yale Army Laboratory School at New
Haven, Connecticut and later in Soldiers Hospital No. 35 at West Baden, Indiana.
Doctor Cole is a member of the Society of American Bacteriologisti and the
American Society of Clinical Pathologists. He also belongs to the Muncie Academy
of Medicine, the Delaware-Blackford Medical Society, the Indiana State and
American Medical Associations. He is affiliated with the B. P. 0. Elks and with
his family belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Doctor Cole resides at
431 West Howard Street in Muncie. He married at Democracy, Ohio, in 1908, Miss
Lulu M. Popham, daughter of Elsworth and Rosa (Elliott) Popham. They have
three children, Lowell, Anton and Rosemary. Lowell is a graduate of the high
school at Muncie and is continuing his education in Wabash College. The two younger
children are students in the public schools.