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CHARLES E. COOLEY, owner of a fine farm of 160 acres in Granada township, was born in Illinois, June 25, 1879, and is a son of Roselle and Arimepha (Towler) Cooley, residents of Wetmore, Kans. Charles E. Cooley was educated in the common schools and was reared on the farm. When twenty years of age he began life for himself on an "eighty" which he rented near the town of Goff. One year later he bought a grist mill at Kelly, Kans., and operated the mill for six months. He then sold it, and after working as section hand for three months, he bought eighty acres near Goff, which he cultivated for three years, then sold out and bought an "eighty" near Bancroft, where he lived for four months. Selling out this place he bought a quarter section in Mitchell township, but traded this place seven months later for eighty acres in Ottawa county, Kansas. Eighteen months later he traded this tract for a quarter section in Granada township, Nemaha county. This was in 1910 and is the present home place of Mr. Cooley. He is a breeder of Poland China swine, of which variety he has fifty head, and also has sixteen head of cattle and eight horses. He operates a portable saw outfit with which he does considerable sawing for his neighbors.
Mr. Cooley was married, Dec. 20, 1899, to Nettie A. Ruhlen, who has borne him children, as follows: Harold, born Dec. 1, 1900; Mabel, born Nov. 9, 1902; Lorimer, born Aug. 25, 1904; Russell, born Feb. 14, 1909; Lois, born May 10, 1911; Lela, a twin to Lois; Edith, died five days after her birth, on Aug. 1, 1913. Mrs. Nettie Cooley, was born in Union county, Ohio, Sept. 21, 1878, and is a daughter of Jacob and Lydia (Clevenger) Ruhlen. Jacob Ruhlen, her father, was born in Germany, Feb. 13, 1849, and secured a good education. He taught school for several years in his native land and immigrated to Kansas in 881 and located on a rented farm in Granada township. A year later he bought eighty acres, which he farmed for two years, then sold out and bought a forty-acre farm in Granada township, upon which he lived for seven years. He then sold it and moved upon the tract now owned by Charles E. Cooley, which he had purchased some time previously. Mr. Ruhlen sawed all of the lumber with which his house and farm buildings were built. After a three years' residence on this farm he rented out his place and moved to Wetmore, Kans., for two years. He then returned to his farm, where he remained for six years. His wife's health failing, he again removed to Wetmore. Two years later his wife again yearned for the farm home and at her entreaties he moved back to the farm, where she died two weeks later After a residence of two years on the farm with his children, Mr. Ruhlen moved to Wetmore for a year, then traded his farm for eighty acres owned by Mr. Cooley. He is now living on a ten acre tract in the outskirts of Baldwin, Kans. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs, and is a Baptist. Mr. Ruhlen was married in 1876 to Lydia Clevenger, who was born in Putnam county, Ohio, Dec. 2, 1850 and died in Kansas in 1890. They were the parents of eight children, as follows: The first born died in infancy; Mrs. Nettie Cooley; Lewis, a machinist at Wetmore; Charles, of Madison, N. J.; Minnie, died in infancy; Edna, at home, Baldwin, Kans., and Nellie, who died in infancy.
Mr. Cooley is a Democrat. He is prominent in the Odd Fellows, but filled all chairs of his lodge and is past noble grand of the order. He and Mrs. Cooley are members of the Methodist church and Mrs. Cooley is a member of the Daughters of Rebekah and the Royal Neighbors.

Source: History of Nemaha County, Kansas by Ralph Tennal - Illustrated - Publ. Standard Publishing Company, Lawrence, Kansas - 1916 - Page 747

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