page_title: Edmund William Cole
section_title: Philanthropy
hierarchical_section_title: Edmund William Cole / Philanthropy
caption_attribution_description: English: Anna Russell Cole Auditorium, Tennessee Preparatory School campus Nashville This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 80003788
context_page_description: Colonel Edmund William Cole was an American Confederate veteran and businessman. He was the president of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, and the founder of the American National Bank.
context_section_description: In 1885, Cole founded the Randall Cole School, and he hired Dr W. C. Kilvington as superintendent. In 1887, Cole donated it to the state of Tennessee, and it was renamed the Tennessee Industrial School. In 1894, it moved into the Anna Russell Cole Auditorium, named for Cole's second wife.
  Cole served as the treasurer of the board of trust of Vanderbilt University. In 1892, he donated $5,000 to endow the annual Cole Lecture, "for the defense and advocacy of the Christian religion."
  Cole made a donation to the Bruce family shortly after the Lynching of Ephraim Grizzard in 1892.
caption: The Anna Russell Cole Auditorium.
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