Portrait of William Richardson Cole wearing round eye glasses. The image is with him turned slightly getting his left side view instead of straight on. He has on a dark dress coat and bow tie with a serious expression on his face. Typed on the back of image reads: William R. Cole was born December 15, 1879 at North Andover, Mass. He attended the Massachusetts Agricultural College 1898-1900; Harvard Summer School, 1911; Columbia University Extension Courses, 1914-16. He taught at Deerfield Academy 1910-14, in the schools of Springfield, Mass. 1914-17, Essex County Agricultural School 1917-19. He was appointed Extension Specialist in Food Preservation at the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1919, became Assistant Extension Professor of Horticultural Manufactures in 1920 and Extension Professor in 1926. Photograph made by F.A Waugh about 1922.
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