Cole, George (2)

a Baptist educator and editor, was born at Sterling, Connecticut, June 22, 1808, and graduated from Brown University in 1834. From that year to 1837 he was professor of mathematics in Granville College (now Denison University), Ohio. In 1838 he became editor of what is now The Journal and Messenger at Cincinnati, which office he held for nine years. For several years he was engaged in secular business, being, for a part of the time, one of the editors of the Cincinnati Gazette. In 1856 he returned to his old position as editor of The Journal and Messenger, and remained in this position until 1864. He died in Dayton, Kentucky, July 14, 1868. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. page 245. (J.C.S.).