Benson Field Cole Papers

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        <date>2005</date>
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      <abstract id="aspace_95716596498d381a4573e6c26d3fbd09">Benson Field Cole was a Wake Forest College alumnis (1856), who died in late 1856. This collection contains two items from Cole's time as a Wake Forest student: a photocopied diary and a notebook containing course notes for philosophy and chemistry courses taught by William Gaston Simmons. It also contains clippings about Cole from the <title render="italic"><part>Biblical Recorder</part></title>.</abstract>
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      <p>Benson Field Cole Papers (MS 269), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.</p>
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      <p>Notebook transferred from Rare Books, July 27, 1982, formerly W 102 067. Accession No. 42837. The diary is a photocopy and a gift from Gerald Oldham, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Mar. 1, 1985. MS 269.</p>
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      <p>Benson Field Cole was a native of Chatham County, North Carolina. He graduated from Wake Forest College in 1856. He was a tutor at Wake Forest College until his death. The Biblical Recorder notes on November 20, 1856, that his death of typhoid fever occured "Saturday last," or November 15. A Philomathesia memorial notes the death date as December 15, 1856.</p>
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      <p>This collection contains two items from Cole's time as a student at Wake Forest College. The first is a notebook, dated September 26, 1854, contains class notes for Philosophy and Chemistry taken under Prof. <persname><part>William Gaston Simmons</part></persname>. The second is the photocopy of a diary that Cole kept from September 18, 1852 to August 31, 1856. He records his religious feelings; his preaching in nearby churches; his call to the ministry; talks on missions and sermons heard; conversations with students and others; his readings; his appointment as tutor at Wake Forest College; and his ordination on August 31, 1856. Clippings from the <title render="italic"><part>Biblical Recorder</part></title> about Cole after his death are also included.</p>
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