by the explosion of a shell from the " Merrimac '" upon the eyehole of the pilot-house. In the command of the ironclad " Montauk," of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, he engaged Fort McAllister, January 27, 1 863, and on February 28th attacked and destroyed the privateer steamer " Nashville," under the guns of that fort. He was in the attack of Charleston, under Du})ont, April 7, 1863, and on December 1, 1869, was appointed superintendent of the United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis.

Rev. David Cole, D.D., has been a Yonkers pastor since 1865, and is the oldest of eight children of Rev. Isaac D. Cole and Anna Maria Shatzel. On his father's side he is of unbroken Holland descent. The original spelling of the family name was "Kool." His mother's parents were John M. Shatzel, Jr., and Barbara Wood. The former was a son of John M. Shatzel and Anna Maria Tremberin, both born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and the latter, a daughter of Ebenezer Wood, of Welsh, and Margaret Hubbard, or Hoeber, of Holland descent.

On preserved New Amsterdam (New York) records, the name " Kool " first appears with official papers ol' 1630 and 1633. Lenart Kool, as Director Minuit's deputy secretary, signed the famous patent to Kiliaen Van Rensselaer for a tract of land on the Hudson River, August 13, 1630, and Barent Jacobsen Kool, as an officer of the West India Company, with six others, signed a " Condition and Agreement " between Jacob Van Curler and certain Indian chiefs on the 8th of June, 1633. Whether these were related is not known. The latter was the earliest American ancestor of Rev. Dr. Cole. The form of his name indicates that he was a son of Jacob Kool. The father is not known to have come to America.