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Welcome to Cole
County Missouri
Genealogy Research
Capitol
building Jefferson City Mo
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My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their Cole County MO ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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Use the box below to
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Cole
County Data
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Brief History:
(from colecounty .org)
Cole County is in the
central part of the state, bounded north
by the Missouri River, which separates
it from Boone and
Callaway counties, east by Osage
River, south by Miller, west by Miller
and Moniteau counties, and contains
234,466 acres.
As early as 1816, a few families
from Kentucky and Tennessee located
within the present limits of Cole
County. It was
organized
November 16, 1820, when it was named for
the intrepid pioneer, Capt. Stephan
Cole. The county seat was located
at Marion in
1822, and removed to Jefferson City in
1828. The seat of government of the
state was removed from St. Louis to
St. Charles in
1821, then to Jefferson City in 1826.
The 1st Capitol Building was completed
on October 1, 1826, and the
Legislature
convened in the building on the third
Monday in November. At the time of
admission of Missouri into the Union,
Congress granted
four sections of land for the location
of the seat of government.
Jefferson City
Families
At this time there were but 2
families residing in the place, Major Josiah
Ramsey, Jr., and Mr. Wm. Jones.
This year (1823) the building of a
brick State House was let to the lowest
bidder, Daniel Colgan, and afterwards
transferred to James Dunnica of
Kentucky, who built the capitol at the bid of
$25,000. The State House was
completed at the stipulated time, and
the Legislature assembled in the new State
Capitol on the 3rd Monday in
November, 1826. Up to this date all the
families that resided in Jefferson City were:
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Hiram H. Baber |
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Mr. Thompson |
| Christopher Casey |
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James Dunnica |
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Robert A. Ewing |
| Daniel Colgan |
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James R. Pullen |
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Robert H. Hones |
| David Harmon |
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Jesse F. Roystan |
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Samuel Harrison |
| David Scrivner |
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John C. Gordon |
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Stephen C. Doriss |
| David Slater |
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John Dunnica |
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Terry Scurlock |
| Geo. Woodward |
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John P. Thomas |
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Willis Thornton |
| Granville P. Thomas |
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Josiah Ramsey, Jr. |
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Wm. Henderson |
| Harden Casey |
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McDaniel Dorriss |
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Wm. Jones |
| Henry Buckner |
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Mr. Moss |
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