Nathan Cole Jr. (1860–1921) was one of the two founders of the Los Angeles Daily Times now the Los Angeles Times. The son of a wealthy St. Louis Missouri politician and banker he was just 21 years old in 1881 when he and a colleague Thomas Gardiner put together the first issues of the new venture to be printed on the presses of the Mirror Publishing Company. He later was a real estate man and a Los Angeles city police commissioner.Cole worked on a St.