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| Birthplace: | Des Moines, Iowa, Iowa, United States |
| Death: | Died in Sacramento, CA, USA |
| Occupation: | Fruit Grower |
| Managed by: | Paul Rickter |
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About William Emmett Cole
Fruit grower in Capay Valley;
SACRAMENTO DAILY RECORD-UNION, MONDAY, JUNE 1. 1891
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015104/1891-06-01/ed-1/seq-4.pdf
Capay's Early Fruit.
[Esparto Independent, May 28th.]
Mrs. Juliette Cole is having picked and shipped off to Chicago figs off her place. The first figs were picked on Monday, and were Spanish purple. We claim this is the first shipment of ripe figs in the State.
A party of San Franciscans arrived here on Saturday evening hist and subsequently visited the upper portion of Capay valley. They were looking over the ground preparatory to making in- vestments, and wore very enthusiastic over tins tine country. They purchased considerable property before leaving.
W. E. Cole has made arrangements to have refrigerator car at Esparto whenever there is any fruit ready for shipment to Chicago. He has also received an offer from Porter Brothers & Co., of Chicago, for his entire crop of muscatel grapes, knowing that they are two weeks earlier than any other in the State. The firm want them for the Chicago and New York markets. Mr. Cole made the first shipment of raisins to Chicago last season. His grape crop is an exceedingly fine one, and he is undecided whether be will accept their offer or not, as they make the finest quality of raisins.
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SACRAMENTO DAILY RECORD-UNION, TUESDAY, JUNE 23. 1891
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015104/1891-06-23/ed-1/seq-5.pdf
CAPAY VALLEY
The First to Ship Ripe Moorpark Apricots to Market.
The charming and fertile Valley of Capay, in the western portion of Yolo County, is fast coming to the front as an early producer of fruit. For many years past the Winters and Vacaville sections have enjoyed the reputation of being the first to market their fruits, but Capay leads this year in the matter of certain varieties, and will soon become noted as the earliest fruit-producing section of the State.
The young orchards set out in that valley three years ago are just corning into bearing, but it will not be many years before the entire valley will be covered with orchards and vineyards.
Already W. E. Cole of Esparto has shipped from there a quantity of ripe Moorpark apricots, the first of the season, and which are fully two weeks in advance of the Winters shipments, and indeed ahead of any other locality.
Capay Valley possesses unusual advantages for fruit culture, it is blessed with plenty of natural irrigation (rainfall), and yet the soil is warm, while the valley is protected by surrounding hills of the Coast Range from both hot and cold winds. It is, in fact, one of the choicest garden-spots of the State, and a bright future i* just dawning upon it.
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SACRAMENTO DAILY RECORD-UNION, SATURDAY, JUNE 27. 1891
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015104/1891-06-27/ed-1/seq-4.pdf (note racist editorial comment from story author)
CAPAY VALLEY FRUIT.
Her Apricots Outsell All Others In the Chicago Market.
Tlie Esparto Independent contains the following mention ol fruit culture in the fertile valley of Capay:
W. E. Cole has received a lotter from J. M. Pettengill, agent at Winters for Porter Bros. & Co. of Chicago, stating that his apricots had sold for the highest rate of any in the car. This is another triumph lor white labor over Chinese, as the boxes were packed by white girls. Wm. Marders shipped a carload of wheat from here on Friday last, which is about as early as any in the State, we think. At any rate it was the first Esparto for the season of 1891. It was ready on the 18th (Thursday), but did not get away until the next day. The first wheat brought to the warehouse here last year was on Juno 10th. The cool weather has kept it back this year
M. A. Nurse, who is interested in a ranch of 1,500 acres above Cadenasso along with some Woodland capitalists, brought to this office some very fine specimens of figs grown on the ranch. They were ofthe Mission stock, and four of them filled a cigar box, with very little room to spare. The figs averaged over nine inches in circumference and were not the largest grown on the place, as those wero destroyed by the birds pecking them.
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The Winters Express Saturday July 18, 1891
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NORCAL/2005-07/1122157933
Esparto Fruit
W.E. Cole shipped away up to Friday of last week 1210 crates of green apricots and 68 tons of dried. He is still engaged in picking and drying apricots, having just purchased the products of 200 acres of apricots trees, which he is now curing. He is now engaged in buying up figs, which he will cure and send East.
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William Cole's Timeline
| 1850 |
January 13, 1850
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Iowa, United States
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| 1873 |
1873
Age 22
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LDS Ancestral File: http://is.gd/9FisbV name: William Emmet COLE
Name: W. E. Cole
Name: Prudenc J. Cole
Name: Prudence B. Cole
Name: Martha E. Cole
Name: David Cole
Name: W E Cole
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Name: William E Cole
Name: Prudence Cole
Name: Mary Cole
Name: Emmet Cole
Name: Ruth Cole
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Name: William E Cole
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| 1874 |
1874
Age 23
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| 1877 |
1877
Age 26
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| 1879 |
1879
Age 28
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CA, USA
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| 1887 |
1887
Age 37
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| 1891 |
April, 1891
Age 41
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CA, USA
If Emmet is actually a William Emmett Jr. then this should be a match on the 1920 & 1930 Census - matching this marriage: The Marin Journal
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Name: William E Cole
1930 Name: William E Cole
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| 1896 |
1896
Age 46
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| 1928 |
February 4, 1928
Age 78
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Sacramento, CA, USA
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=48852792 William E. Cole Birth: unknown
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1928
Age 77
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Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, USA
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