Olive A Cole

Olive A. Colegrove Cole

• Birth: 1833 Trumansburg, Tompkins County, New York, USA
• Death: Aug. 18, 1918 Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Holly Leaves Magazine – August 24, 1918

Mrs. Olive C. Cole, wife of former United States Senator Cornelius Cole, died suddenly at 9:30 o’clock last Sunday night at the family residence, No. 6121 Lexington avenue. Mrs. Cole was stricken with cerebral hemorrhage Sunday morning and died without regaining consciousness. She was 85 years old.

For thirty-seven years a resident of Los Angeles and a charter member of the Friday Morning Club, Mrs. Cole was known from one end of the State to the other.

With Mrs. Cole at the time of her death were her husband, her two daughters, Mrs. Emma C. Brown and Mrs. L. C. Waring, and two sons, Seward Cole and George T. Cole.

Until nearly the day of her death, Mrs. Cole was active in woman’s work. Besides being one of the founders of the Friday Morning Club, she was a member of the Hollywood Women’s Club and was prominent in community library work.

Mrs. Cole was born in Ithaca, N. Y., near the home of her husband, Ovid, N.Y. Cornelius Cole came overland to California in the days of ’49. Four years later, Olive Colegrove came from New York by the way of Panama and the wedding followed soon after in San Francisco.

For thirty years the couple lived in the northern part of the State, finally coming to the South, where they secured a 500-acre ranch where the town of Colegrove was founded, which was named in honor of the deceased, and where they have lived ever since.

The former Senator is 96 years old, but until lately has attended to business every day. He was one of the founders of the Republican party in California. He published the first paper in Sacramento and in this was greatly assisted by his wife. In 1863 he was elected to the House of Representatives and was known as California’s War Congressman. In 1866 he was elected to the United States senate, and Mrs. Cole’s life was enriched by the association with the great national leaders of that period.

Mrs. Cole had had many honors, state and national. She was a delegate to the last Republican national convention and supplanted Chauncey M. Depew as dean of that notable body.

The funeral Wednesday morning at the home was private, in charge of William Strother. The ceremony was ready by Rev. F. T. Westhafer, acting pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and interment was at Hollywood cemetery. The pallbearers, intimate friends of the Cole family, included G. G. Hunt, John B. Campbell, Norwood Howard, E. Avery McCarthy, J. J. Mellus and Roy Jones, active, and as honorary there were Hector Alliot, Col. Cornelius Cole Smith, David Cole, Dr. W. H. Snyder, Dr. Henry W. Howard, J. M. Peebles, Capt. John D. Fredericks, Frank Wiggins, Dr. William LeM. Wills, J. B. Rider. Judge Walter Bordwell, C. E. C. Hodgson, Dr. J. J. Carter, Col. J. J. Steadman, I. W. Vincent, Dr. John N. Force, Gen. John Wilcox, J. F. Sartori, Willis H. Booth, Philo H. Beveridge and Senator George F. Edmunds.

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