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Tennessee Industrial School, which provided education and support for orphaned and disadvantaged boys. The school was initially established in memory of their stepson, one of
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who was nineteen years older than her, involved in the railroad industry. Edmund Cole was the president of the
Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad and an officer of the Georgia Banking & Railroad Company of Augusta. The couple moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where Cole took on the
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their stepsons, Randal Cole, died in 1884 in a railroad accident. Anna Cole encouraged her husband to found an education institute in his memory, The Randal Cole
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Edmund Cole's children from a previous marriage. Their donations to the school were amounted to US$ 100,000 (roughly US$ 2,692,941 today). Cole also supported temperance societies and
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