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ELMER E. COLE
COLE, ELMER E., Real Estate Los Angeles, Cal., was born in New Hampshire, December 21, 1863. He is the son of H. L. Cole and Emily (Phipps) Cole. He married Laura M. Mayhew at Minneapolis, Minn., in 1893, and to them have been born two sons, Lloyd and Harold Cole.
Mr. Cole attended the public schools of Portland, Maine, and Boston, Mass., until he was sixteen years old. At the age of eighteen he was a traveling salesman for a Boston cutlery company, and continued in that capacity until he was twenty-three years of age, when he resigned and went to Minneapolis, embarking in the real estate business.
He dealt principally in farming and ranch lands and for thirteen years was an important factor in developing that section. During these thirteen years he met with both success and reverses, but he kept at it and subsequently achieved a lasting success. In 1900 he sold his interests in the Northwest and moved to Los Angeles. He immediately opened brokerage offices, dealing in stocks, bonds and mining properties. He remained at this occupation until 1905, when he gave up the stock and bond end of his business and confined himself to real estate and lands. He holds extensive mining interests, extending from Northern California to Old Mexico. Since engaging in the real estate business in Los Angeles, Mr. Cole has handled some large deals in acreage tracts, among them being the sale of 1500 acres south of Playa del Rey, California. He deals extensively in city property and is the owner of some of the most valuable real estate in the business center of Los Angeles.
He formerly was a member of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Realty Board, Masons, Los Angeles Automobile Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Gamut Club and California Club of Los Angeles.
Transcribed 3-19-09
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 220, International
News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston,
Atlanta. 1913.
© 2009 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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