| Francis Richard Cole "COLE, FRANCIS RICHARD, lawyer, orator, author, poet, was born prior to the great fire in Chicago, Ill. He was given a thorough education in the public schools; received the degree of LL. B. from the Lake Forest university; and subsequently received the degrees of Ph. D. and LL. D. He is one of the foremost lawyers of his native city; and in 1892 was a candidate for judge of the supreme court on the labor reform ticket. He is a lecturer on medical jurisprudence in the Dutton Medical college; is president of the Citizens' Sovereignty association; and is the author of a large amount of poetry and prose; and in 1896 wrote a work entitled Civilization, Bryan and the Times." [Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century 234 (Chicago: American Publishers' Assoc., 1898)][See also: [Thomas William Herringshaw (ed.), Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography 36 (Chicago: American Publishers' Assoc., 1905)(vol. 2)][online text] Writings Francis R. Cole, Civilization, Bryan and the Times (Chicago, 1896) ____________, Magellan, the First Circumnavigator of the World (Chicago: Donohue, 1922) ____________, Love & Fate: Drama in Four Acts (Chicago: M.A. Donohue, 1922) |
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