From the book "History of Orange County California," page 472:
MRS. ELLA D. COLE.—The owner of one of Orange County's most profitable ranches is Mrs. Ella D. Cole, whose husband was the late Myrtle Cecillian Cole. The history of the Cole family in America dates back to the earliest colonial days, the first representatives of the family coming over from England in 1629 and settling at Ply- mouth. They were prominently identified with all the early development of those pioneer days and when the days of the Revolutionary War came the Cole family fur- nished more than 1,000 soldiers to help in the defense of the principles of American liberty. In religious affiliation the Coles were of the Baptist persuasion and they played an important part in the early days of that denomination as well as in the succeeding generations. A family of education, character and progressiveness, they have always been leaders in every community in which they have settled.
Mrs. Cole, who before her marriage was Miss Ella Delavan, was born at Canaan, Columbia County, N. Y., in 1855, the Delavan family being of French Huguenot ances- try. Her parents were Albert H. and Mary A. (Sperry) Delavan, the Sperrys being one of Connecticut's prominent families who settled in central New York in the early days, Mrs. Delavan having the advantage of an education in the select schools of the latter state. At the time of Mrs. Cole's birth, her father, Albert H. Delavan, was engaged in farming in eastern New York, but when a young man he had been in the railroad business, having had charge of the freight house at Canaan, N. Y. He was also superintendent of construction of the street railway at Albany, N, Y., and of the Albany and Binghampton Railway.
In Duanesburgh, N. Y., on January 31, 1878, occurred Mrs. Cole's marriaie, when she was united with Myrtle Cecillian Cole, who was also a native of New York. He was born at Deansboro, in Oneida County, September 18, 1854, and received his first schooling in that neighborhood, afterward attending a school at Delhi, N. Y., so that hewasfortunateinreceivingagoodeducation. Healsostudiedlawandwasadmitted to the bar in the Empire State; for some time he practiced law at Deansboro and kept books for his father, Menzo White Cole, who was extensively engaged in growing hops in central New York. Mrytle C. Cole afterwards became interested in agriculture and operated a large market garden at Oneida, Madison County, N. Y. In 1898, with his wife and children he came to California, first settling at Glendora, where he re- mained for one year, coming then to Santa Ana, where he took up agriculture and horticulture, farming twenty acres at Wintersburg which was formerly the property of his father, M. W. Cole, who had passed away at Glendora in 1896; his widow survived him until 1917. Myrtle C. Cole became possessor of the twenty-acre Win- tersburg ranch, improved this place and afterward sold it, and then purchased the sixty- acre Ross ranch near Wintersburg, which Mrs. Cole still owns. Mr. Cole was a scientific and progressive farmer and he effectually drained and irrigated this farm and brought it to a high state of productivity. His death occurred at Santa Ana August 13, 1916.
Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cole: Homer L. is a well-known con- tractor and builder in Santa Ana; he married Jessie M. Hoffman and they have one child, Clifford Delavan. Ernest Delavan, the second child, is a graduate of Stanford University with the degree of civil engineer and is now located in Gainesville, Texas, where he is engaged in building a large oil reservoir; he has spent considerable time in South America in connection with the oil industry. Philip Chester, a graduate as an architect of the International Correspondence School at Scranton, Pa., married Irma B. Hale and practices his profession at Chico, Cal.; Edith Blanche, a graduate nurse, is now the wife of Oscar Blake and they reside on the Cole ranch near Wintersburg and have a daughter, Ellen Dee.
Since Her husband's death Mrs. Cole continues to reside in Santa Ana, where she has built a comfortable bungalow on East Pine Street, looking after the interests left by Mr. Cole, in which she is ably assisted by her devoted children.
Considerate and generous, Mrs. Cole is a woman of rare attainments and she has ever taken a genuine and active interest in all movements that aimed at the better- ment of the community. In her girlhood she was a student at the state normal school at Cortland, N. Y., and taught school in that state for five terms before her marriage. A consistent Christian, she is a member of the First Presbyterian Church at Santa Ana, in whose benevolences she takes an active and liberal part.
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Gabriella Augusta “Ella” Delavan Cole
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1855
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1933 (aged 77–78)
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Maiden name: Delavan.
Source: History of Orange County CA, page 472.
Note: There is a mini biography on Ella (Delavan) Cole in the book "History of Orange County California," page 472. This book is available full text, on-line per contributor Sandra Lennox.

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Albert Hinkley Delavan
1828–1908



Mary Ann Sperry Delavan
1833–1909

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Myrtle Cecillian Cole
1854–1916

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Albertine Carrie Delavan
1857–1926



Frank Rollo Delavan
1862–1919

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Homer L. Cole
1878–1930



E. D. Cole
1881–1940



Philip Chester Cole
1883–1938

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