1.  BENJAMIN REUBEN COOL came to America with his family before the
Revolutionary War from Holland.   He is found in the 1820 census for the Town
of Brownville, Jefferson County, NY,  They emigrated to Erie Co, Pennsylvania
then Ashtabula Co, Ohio and finally in 1841 to Batchelors Grove, Illinois where
he purchased land.   While on a trip to St. Louis, Benjamin was taken sick and
died in 1848.

He married 

LOIS MAXON who was born in 1792 and died in 1876

Children, COOL:

     2     i   CAROLINE COOL married (---) MINARD

     3    ii   BENJAMIN FRANKLIN COOL

     4   iii   DANIEL MAXON COOL

     5    iv   CATHERINE MINERVA COOL married (---) NOBLES

For further information, contact: Joan Cool

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