Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . ^>«s:Hiiii>.^.$ DWARD COLES, secondGovernor of Illinois, 1823-. 6, was bom Dec. 15, 1786,in Albemarle Co., Va., onthe old family estate calledEnniscorthy, 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 he was .enioved to William andMary College, at Williamsburg, college he left in the summer of1S07, a short time before the final and graduatingexamination

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Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . ^>«s:Hiiii>.^.$ DWARD COLES, secondGovernor of Illinois, 1823-. 6, was bom Dec. 15, 1786,in Albemarle Co., Va., onthe old family estate calledEnniscorthy, 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 he was .enioved to William andMary College, at Williamsburg, college he left in the summer of1S07, a short time before the final and graduatingexamination. Among his classmates were Scott, President John Tyler, Wm. 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 that cir-cumstance was the occasion of Mr. Coles becomingpersonally acquainted with the President and re-ceiving a position as his private secretary, family of Coles was a promin

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