Cole, Benjamin (2)
Cole, Benjamin (1)
a Baptist minister, was born in Maine about 1760, and was licensed by the Lewiston Conference (so called), and ordained an evangelist in 1801. In 1802 he was chosen pastor of the Church in Lewiston, and continued in this relation nearly forty years, with the exception of a few short intervals, when he was engaged in missionary labors in destitute sections of the state of Maine. He died in September 1839. See Millett, History of Baptists in Maine, page 440. (J.C.S.)
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Cole, Benjamin (2)
a Canadian Methodist minister, was born in Quebec in 1825. He was converted in 1849, entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1855, retired in 1870, and died at Abbotsford, August 2, 1870. He was generous, cheerful, social, an enthusiastic musician, a true friend, and deeply pious. See Carroll, Case and his Contemporaries (Toronto), 1867, 5:250.