GOSS FAMILY
man Seth Beach COLE‏‎
Born ‎25 Dec 1820 Prattsburg, Steuben, New York, died ‎31 Jan 1895 Nyack, Rockland, New York‎, 74 years, buried ‎2 Feb 1895 Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, Rockland, NY. Occupation: Attorney, Judge
Note:
Taught in Lancaster, New York. M.A. from Union College in Schenectady, New York in 1846. Represented Steuben County in the State Legislature in 1855-56. Admitted to New York Bar in1855 in Brooklyn. A delegate to the first Republican Convention in
Philadelphia that nominated John C. Fremont and at the Convention at Chicago that nominated Abraham Lincoln. Moved to Nyack, New York in 1867. Became District Attorney, Judge and Surrogate.
In the 1860 census, Seth B. Cole was living in Ward 7W, Brooklyn 2nd
District and his age was 39. Also living with him at the time were Annie
(probably Anna E.) age 36, born in Vermont, Edward, age 12, born in New
York, and Jane Fox, age 20, a servant, born in Ireland.
In the 1870 census, living in Orangetown, Nyack post office, Rockland Co.
New York were: Seth B. age 49, lawyer, born in New York, who had property
valued at $5,000; Anna E., age 46, born in Vermont; Edward H. age 22, a
law student, born in NY; Emma F. age 9, born in NY and also Eliza G. French, age 70
born in New Hampshire.
In the 1880 census, living in Nyack were Seth B. Cole, age 59, lawyer, born
in New York, both of whose parents were born in Conn.; Anna E., age 56,
born in Vt., whose father was born in Mass, and mother in New Hampshire and Emma F., age19, daughter, born in NY.
Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century.
Addenda
page xxii
COLE, SETH BEACH, educator, lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born Dec. 25, 1820, in Prattsburg, N. Y. He was principal of the Franklin academy, of Prattsburg, for nine years; and was a member of the New York state legislature in 1855-56. In 1860 he
was a delegate to the national republican convention from Brooklyn. Since 1867 he has practiced law in Nyack, N. Y., and has been district attorney, judge and surrogate.
Albany, State Representative For Steuben County
Delegate To Republican National Convention
Location3 1867 Nyack, District Attorney, Judge, Surrogate
Education: 1838 Franklin Institute, Prattsburgh, New York
1846 M.A. Union College, Scenectedy. New York

Married ‎25 Dec 1845 Albion, Orleans County, New York (49 years married) to:

woman Ann Eliza FRENCH‏‎, daughter of Justus Warner FRENCH and Elizabeth GOSS‏.
Born ‎28 Dec 1823 Barre, Vermont, died ‎10 Jun 1917 Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois‎, 93 years
Note: Born in Barre, Vermont. Moved to Geneva, New York with her family in
October 1832. Then to Albion, New York in 1842. In 1844 Valedictorian of
Ingham University, LeRoy, New York.

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