Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . ;^)-gg--J®>^ : ?-- DVVARD COLES, secondGovernor of Illinois, 1823-6, was born Dec. 15, 1786, Albemarle Co., Va., onthe old family estate called E nniscorthy, on theGreen Mountain. His fath-er, John Coles, was a Colonel in theRevolutionary War. Having been fit-ted for college by private tutors, hewas sent to Hampden Sidney, wherehe remained until the autumn of 1805,when be was removed to William andfCT) ilt^iV Mary College, at Williamsburg, !,.^ This college he left in the summer of1S07, a short time before th
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . ;^)-gg--J®>^ : ?-- DVVARD COLES, secondGovernor of Illinois, 1823-6, was born Dec. 15, 1786, Albemarle Co., Va., onthe old family estate called E nniscorthy, on theGreen Mountain. His fath-er, John Coles, was a Colonel in theRevolutionary War. Having been fit-ted for college by private tutors, hewas sent to Hampden Sidney, wherehe remained until the autumn of 1805,when be was removed to William andfCT) ilt^iV Mary College, at Williamsburg, !,.^ This college he left in the summer of1S07, a short time before the final and graduatingexamination. Among his classmates were Scott, President Joiin Tyler, Wni. S. Archer,United States Senator from Virginia, and JusticeBaldwin, of the United States Supreme Court. ThePresident of the latter college. Bishop Madison, wasa cousin of President James Madison, and tiiat cir-cumstance was the occasion of Mr. Coles becomingpersonally acquainted with the President and re-ceiving a position as his private secr
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