Contributed by Barbara Le Sage

When Bernard Templeton Cole was born on January 27, 1886, in Hardwick, Vermont, his father, Calvin, was 39 and his mother, Frances, was 30. He married Amy Bishop Rowe on April 29, 1911, in New Haven, Connecticut. They had four children during their marriage. He died on January 29, 1973, in New Milford, Connecticut, at the age of 87.