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Show CORNELIUS COLE DIES WOLD ACE MAN WHO SAW STATE OF CALIFORNIA CAL-IFORNIA GROW DIES AT AGE OF 102 YEARS Former United States Senator Member Mem-ber of First Gold Seeking Party In Sacramento Valley in 1849 Los Angeles, Cornelius Cole, former for-mer United States senator, 102 years and 2 months of age, survivor of the most striking and picturesque period in the history of California the era of the placer miner, the Vigilantes, the pony express and the transcon tinental railway builders; of momen tous- political arid social controversies, startling crimes and summary punishments, pun-ishments, died a his residence here. The direct cause of death, physicians physi-cians announced, was incipient pneu monia, old age and a touch of heart disease. He had been in frail health for several months, so much so that celebration of his- last birthday was limited to members of the family art his residence. Mr. Cole, who celebrated the 102nd anniveisary of his birth September 17, 11-24, arrived in California wnen he was 27 years of age, ar.d became a member of the first gold-seeking party to reach the Sacramento valley overland from the east in the rush of 1S49. During the Civil war Mr. Cole occupied oc-cupied a seat in the htuse of repre oc-ntatives, and in 1S6J was elected to the United States senate from California, Cali-fornia, serving until 1S73. Xearly fifty years after Senator Cole had closed his desk in the national na-tional capital and returned to the state of his adoption, he appeared once again in Washington to took his old place in the legislative chambers, cham-bers, there to receive the tribute of a new generation that was- guiding the affairs of the nation. He was a centenarian then or within a tew monhs of the T O .war mark and as he stood in the s-nate to speak, he saw none who had been there in his day. Mr. Cole was born at Lodi, N. September 17, 1822. |