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Excerpt from A Catalogue of Books Relating to the Discovery and Early History of North and South America, Vol. 2: Forming a Part of the Library of E. D. Church; 1590 1625 Maps: i Folding map; inscriptions in Latin and German; the Latin, at upper right-hand:idescriptio hydro grarhica accommodate ad Battafuo rum nafuagationi in yacvam 1595 linesi 14 x 25185, inches; scale, Ill/i, inches 40 to 50° N. Latitude; facing p. I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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George Watson Cole was born on September 6, 1850 in Warren, Connecticut, United States. He was the only child of Munson and Antoinette Fidelia (Taylor) Cole. His father, a traditional Yankee, manufactured children's hoops, dealt in bone dust, invented things, ventured in real estate, and died at the age of fifty, when George was seventeen. Two years later his mother married Levi W. Thrall, a widower with nine children.
After a few years of schooling at Andover and Exeter, Cole taught school and read law, and in 1876 he was admitted to the bar and began to practise in the small town of Plymouth, Connecticut. In 1920 he received an honorary L. H. D. from Trinity College, Hartford.
For some five years he was an ardent prosecutor of liquor law violators, making few friends and many enemies. In 1885 Cole, deciding to abandon the law, went to New York to consult Melvil Dewey, librarian of Columbia College, through whose influence he was soon after appointed as cataloguer of a new public library at Fitchburg, Massachussets So successful was he on this assignment that, again on Dewey's recommendation, he was called to the Newberry Library in Chicago as assistant to its head, William F. Poole. At the end of 1890 he was chosen librarian of the newly created public library of Jersey City. Meanwhile he had graduated (1888) from Dewey's new library school at Columbia. He resigned from his Jersey City post to devote himself to bibliographical work. A trip to Bermuda while his wife was convalescing from typhoid fever led him into extended research in Bermudiana, of which he formed a notable personal collection. He began his true life work, however, in December 1901 when he undertook to catalogue the great collection of early Americana built up by E. Dwight Church of Brooklyn, head of the Church & Dwight Company, manufacturers of bicarbonate of soda. The five volumes which resulted, after eight years of labor, form a permanent monument of American bibliography. A chance meeting in 1914 with Henry E. Huntington, railroad heir and collector of books and art, led to Cole's best known work. Huntington was looking for a librarian for the extensive collections he had recently acquired. He offered Cole the position, and Cole accepted, becoming librarian of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery when that institution was established at San Marino, California, in 1920. Cole retired in 1924 at the age of seventy-four but remained active with lectures and scholarly productions until invalided by a stroke two years before his death. He died at the age of eighty-nine and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Before his death he gave his reference books to Yale University and his entire Bermuda collection, his collection of 35, 000 postcards, and his private journals and voluminous correspondence to the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachussets. Both Cole and his wife, who died less than two months after him, left generous bequests to these two institutions and to the Bibliographical Society of America.
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Cole was tall and of imposing appearance, with a ruddy complexion, a pointed beard, and a vigorous manner of speaking.
His first wife, Martha A. Thrall, one of his mother's stepchildren, had died, and in 1877 he married Louise E. Warner of New Haven, daughter of the Rev. Wyllys Warner of Yale. His second wife having died early in 1891, Cole married three years later Mrs. Laura (Ward) Roys of Lyons.
