HARRIE BADGER8 COE (Henry Hersey7, George6, John5, William4, John3, John2, Matthew1) was born March 11, 1865, in Portland, Cumberland County, ME USA. A member of an old and prominent Maine family, Mr. Coe lived there throughout his life with the exception of two years spent overseas during WW I as a captain in the American Red Cross.
After having been connected for more than a quarter of a century with the Maine Central Railroad Company, he engaged for almost ten years in the advertising and printing business. From the end of the World War he devoted himself to social service and to publicity work. From 1925 he was connected in an executive capacity with the State of Maine Publicity Bureau.
A man of great executive ability and of a very pleasing personality, he enjoyed the confidence of an unusually large number of prominent men and women in all parts of Maine. Being especially widely known amongst hotel owners, many of whom were greatly benefited by his publicity work, he was also prominently active in the religious and social life of his native city, where he made his home for practically all of his life.
Harrie Badger Coe's father was for many years connected with the Burnham & Morrill Company of Portland, one of the largest canning houses in Maine. He was a bookkeeper and cashier at the time of his death in 1879.
Mr. Coe was educated in the public schools of Portland. At the end of his first year at Portland High School, his father's untimely death made it necessary for him to cut short his pursuit of education and at the age of fourteen years. In 1880 he entered the employ of the Maine Central Railroad Company as an office boy in the passenger traffic department. Receiving frequent promotions to different positions of ever-increasing responsibility and importance, he eventually was made chief clerk of this department.
From this position he resigned in 1908 to form the Priniwell Company, of which he became manager. This company did a large advertising and printing business and under Mr. Coe's very able direction enjoyed a very high reputation. He resigned as its manager in 1917 to accept service with the American Red Cross in France and Italy.
After the end of the World War he returned to Maine from abroad. His health having broken down as the result of the war, he accepted, in 1920, a position with the Great Northern Paper Company and engaged in social service work among this company's lumber camps in the north woods.
He continued in this work for some eighteen months, after which, having regained his health, he returned to Portland and accepted the position of Publicity and Retail Secretary of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. In 1924 he resigned this position, accepting that of General Secretary of the State of Maine Publicity Bureau, of which he has been manager from 1926. He was also secretary of the Maine Hotel Association. In these two offices he did exceptionally able and valuable work in connection with giving publicity to the many great advantages possessed by Maine as a recreation center.
He was widely known throughout the state and made many friends for himself and for his native state amongst the thousands of visitors who came to Maine every summer, many of them visiting the state as the result of the work of his Bureau and frequently relying on its services during their stay. The headquarters of the Bureau, located on Longfellow Square, Portland, became known throughout the country as one of the most efficiently conducted offices of this type, a reputation largely resulting from Mr. Coe's work.
In 1927 he accepted an invitation by the publishers to become editor-in-chief of "Maine Biographies" (Baltimore: Clearfield, 2002), a position for which he was admirably fitted by his unusually extensive knowledge of the history, development and present conditions of all phases of life in Maine. He was also the author of "Maine: Resources, Attractions and Its People, a History."
Mr. Coe's service as a captain with the American Red Cross was very important and offered him still another opportunity to prove his unusual executive ability. He was stationed in France and later in Italy, being placed in charge of the shipping department and of thirty-two warehouses in Italy and Sicily.
He was a member of the Portland Club, of the Board of Governors of which he was a member for several years; the Portland Kiwanis Club; the Round Table; the State Street Parish Club; the Cumberland County Fish & Game Association; the Maine Sportsman's Fish & Game Association; the National Aeronautic Association; the Maine Automobile Association; and the Veterans of Foreign Vars.
In politics he was a supporter of the Republican Party. His religious affiliations were with the Congregational Church, and more particularly with the State Street Congregational Church of Portland.
Mr. Coe married (1) at Portland, September 10, 1895, Gertrude Libby Kilborn, daughter of William T. and Lucietta (Libby) Kilborn. She died in May 1918. He married (2) at Portland, May 24, 1924, Abba N. Harris, daughter of Newton Whitman and Tilly (Huston) Harris. Mrs. Abba (Harris) Coe for many years was prominently active in religious and club circles and prior to their marriage was also widely known in business circles as a member of the firm of Harris & Jackson with headquarters at 5134 Exchange Street, Portland, one of the most successful direct mail service organizations in Maine.
By his first marriage Mr. Coe was the father of two sons: Philip Kilborn Coe, born at Portland, September 26, 1897, manufacturers' sales manager for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of California with headquarters at Los Angeles; and Kilborn Bray Coe, born at Portland, March 25, 1899, vice-president and manager of the Forest City Motor Company of Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Coe made their home at 1563 Forest Avenue, Portland. He died in Portland, Dec. 11, 1949. Burial was at Evergreen Cemetery.
This family's Y-DNA is unique and does not match any other Coe family.
After having been connected for more than a quarter of a century with the Maine Central Railroad Company, he engaged for almost ten years in the advertising and printing business. From the end of the World War he devoted himself to social service and to publicity work. From 1925 he was connected in an executive capacity with the State of Maine Publicity Bureau.
A man of great executive ability and of a very pleasing personality, he enjoyed the confidence of an unusually large number of prominent men and women in all parts of Maine. Being especially widely known amongst hotel owners, many of whom were greatly benefited by his publicity work, he was also prominently active in the religious and social life of his native city, where he made his home for practically all of his life.
Harrie Badger Coe's father was for many years connected with the Burnham & Morrill Company of Portland, one of the largest canning houses in Maine. He was a bookkeeper and cashier at the time of his death in 1879.
Mr. Coe was educated in the public schools of Portland. At the end of his first year at Portland High School, his father's untimely death made it necessary for him to cut short his pursuit of education and at the age of fourteen years. In 1880 he entered the employ of the Maine Central Railroad Company as an office boy in the passenger traffic department. Receiving frequent promotions to different positions of ever-increasing responsibility and importance, he eventually was made chief clerk of this department.
From this position he resigned in 1908 to form the Priniwell Company, of which he became manager. This company did a large advertising and printing business and under Mr. Coe's very able direction enjoyed a very high reputation. He resigned as its manager in 1917 to accept service with the American Red Cross in France and Italy.
After the end of the World War he returned to Maine from abroad. His health having broken down as the result of the war, he accepted, in 1920, a position with the Great Northern Paper Company and engaged in social service work among this company's lumber camps in the north woods.
He continued in this work for some eighteen months, after which, having regained his health, he returned to Portland and accepted the position of Publicity and Retail Secretary of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. In 1924 he resigned this position, accepting that of General Secretary of the State of Maine Publicity Bureau, of which he has been manager from 1926. He was also secretary of the Maine Hotel Association. In these two offices he did exceptionally able and valuable work in connection with giving publicity to the many great advantages possessed by Maine as a recreation center.
He was widely known throughout the state and made many friends for himself and for his native state amongst the thousands of visitors who came to Maine every summer, many of them visiting the state as the result of the work of his Bureau and frequently relying on its services during their stay. The headquarters of the Bureau, located on Longfellow Square, Portland, became known throughout the country as one of the most efficiently conducted offices of this type, a reputation largely resulting from Mr. Coe's work.
In 1927 he accepted an invitation by the publishers to become editor-in-chief of "Maine Biographies" (Baltimore: Clearfield, 2002), a position for which he was admirably fitted by his unusually extensive knowledge of the history, development and present conditions of all phases of life in Maine. He was also the author of "Maine: Resources, Attractions and Its People, a History."
Mr. Coe's service as a captain with the American Red Cross was very important and offered him still another opportunity to prove his unusual executive ability. He was stationed in France and later in Italy, being placed in charge of the shipping department and of thirty-two warehouses in Italy and Sicily.
He was a member of the Portland Club, of the Board of Governors of which he was a member for several years; the Portland Kiwanis Club; the Round Table; the State Street Parish Club; the Cumberland County Fish & Game Association; the Maine Sportsman's Fish & Game Association; the National Aeronautic Association; the Maine Automobile Association; and the Veterans of Foreign Vars.
In politics he was a supporter of the Republican Party. His religious affiliations were with the Congregational Church, and more particularly with the State Street Congregational Church of Portland.
Mr. Coe married (1) at Portland, September 10, 1895, Gertrude Libby Kilborn, daughter of William T. and Lucietta (Libby) Kilborn. She died in May 1918. He married (2) at Portland, May 24, 1924, Abba N. Harris, daughter of Newton Whitman and Tilly (Huston) Harris. Mrs. Abba (Harris) Coe for many years was prominently active in religious and club circles and prior to their marriage was also widely known in business circles as a member of the firm of Harris & Jackson with headquarters at 5134 Exchange Street, Portland, one of the most successful direct mail service organizations in Maine.
By his first marriage Mr. Coe was the father of two sons: Philip Kilborn Coe, born at Portland, September 26, 1897, manufacturers' sales manager for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of California with headquarters at Los Angeles; and Kilborn Bray Coe, born at Portland, March 25, 1899, vice-president and manager of the Forest City Motor Company of Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Coe made their home at 1563 Forest Avenue, Portland. He died in Portland, Dec. 11, 1949. Burial was at Evergreen Cemetery.
This family's Y-DNA is unique and does not match any other Coe family.
HARRIE BADGER8 COE (Henry Hersey7, George6, John5, William4, John3, John2, Matthew1) was born March 11, 1865, in Portland, Cumberland County, ME USA. A member of an old and prominent Maine family, Mr. Coe lived there throughout his life with the exception of two years spent overseas during WW I as a captain in the American Red Cross.
After having been connected for more than a quarter of a century with the Maine Central Railroad Company, he engaged for almost ten years in the advertising and printing business. From the end of the World War he devoted himself to social service and to publicity work. From 1925 he was connected in an executive capacity with the State of Maine Publicity Bureau.
A man of great executive ability and of a very pleasing personality, he enjoyed the confidence of an unusually large number of prominent men and women in all parts of Maine. Being especially widely known amongst hotel owners, many of whom were greatly benefited by his publicity work, he was also prominently active in the religious and social life of his native city, where he made his home for practically all of his life.
Harrie Badger Coe's father was for many years connected with the Burnham & Morrill Company of Portland, one of the largest canning houses in Maine. He was a bookkeeper and cashier at the time of his death in 1879.
Mr. Coe was educated in the public schools of Portland. At the end of his first year at Portland High School, his father's untimely death made it necessary for him to cut short his pursuit of education and at the age of fourteen years. In 1880 he entered the employ of the Maine Central Railroad Company as an office boy in the passenger traffic department. Receiving frequent promotions to different positions of ever-increasing responsibility and importance, he eventually was made chief clerk of this department.
From this position he resigned in 1908 to form the Priniwell Company, of which he became manager. This company did a large advertising and printing business and under Mr. Coe's very able direction enjoyed a very high reputation. He resigned as its manager in 1917 to accept service with the American Red Cross in France and Italy.
After the end of the World War he returned to Maine from abroad. His health having broken down as the result of the war, he accepted, in 1920, a position with the Great Northern Paper Company and engaged in social service work among this company's lumber camps in the north woods.
He continued in this work for some eighteen months, after which, having regained his health, he returned to Portland and accepted the position of Publicity and Retail Secretary of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. In 1924 he resigned this position, accepting that of General Secretary of the State of Maine Publicity Bureau, of which he has been manager from 1926. He was also secretary of the Maine Hotel Association. In these two offices he did exceptionally able and valuable work in connection with giving publicity to the many great advantages possessed by Maine as a recreation center.
He was widely known throughout the state and made many friends for himself and for his native state amongst the thousands of visitors who came to Maine every summer, many of them visiting the state as the result of the work of his Bureau and frequently relying on its services during their stay. The headquarters of the Bureau, located on Longfellow Square, Portland, became known throughout the country as one of the most efficiently conducted offices of this type, a reputation largely resulting from Mr. Coe's work.
In 1927 he accepted an invitation by the publishers to become editor-in-chief of "Maine Biographies" (Baltimore: Clearfield, 2002), a position for which he was admirably fitted by his unusually extensive knowledge of the history, development and present conditions of all phases of life in Maine. He was also the author of "Maine: Resources, Attractions and Its People, a History."
Mr. Coe's service as a captain with the American Red Cross was very important and offered him still another opportunity to prove his unusual executive ability. He was stationed in France and later in Italy, being placed in charge of the shipping department and of thirty-two warehouses in Italy and Sicily.
He was a member of the Portland Club, of the Board of Governors of which he was a member for several years; the Portland Kiwanis Club; the Round Table; the State Street Parish Club; the Cumberland County Fish & Game Association; the Maine Sportsman's Fish & Game Association; the National Aeronautic Association; the Maine Automobile Association; and the Veterans of Foreign Vars.
In politics he was a supporter of the Republican Party. His religious affiliations were with the Congregational Church, and more particularly with the State Street Congregational Church of Portland.
Mr. Coe married (1) at Portland, September 10, 1895, Gertrude Libby Kilborn, daughter of William T. and Lucietta (Libby) Kilborn. She died in May 1918. He married (2) at Portland, May 24, 1924, Abba N. Harris, daughter of Newton Whitman and Tilly (Huston) Harris. Mrs. Abba (Harris) Coe for many years was prominently active in religious and club circles and prior to their marriage was also widely known in business circles as a member of the firm of Harris & Jackson with headquarters at 5134 Exchange Street, Portland, one of the most successful direct mail service organizations in Maine.
By his first marriage Mr. Coe was the father of two sons: Philip Kilborn Coe, born at Portland, September 26, 1897, manufacturers' sales manager for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of California with headquarters at Los Angeles; and Kilborn Bray Coe, born at Portland, March 25, 1899, vice-president and manager of the Forest City Motor Company of Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Coe made their home at 1563 Forest Avenue, Portland. He died in Portland, Dec. 11, 1949. Burial was at Evergreen Cemetery.
This family's Y-DNA is unique and does not match any other Coe family.
After having been connected for more than a quarter of a century with the Maine Central Railroad Company, he engaged for almost ten years in the advertising and printing business. From the end of the World War he devoted himself to social service and to publicity work. From 1925 he was connected in an executive capacity with the State of Maine Publicity Bureau.
A man of great executive ability and of a very pleasing personality, he enjoyed the confidence of an unusually large number of prominent men and women in all parts of Maine. Being especially widely known amongst hotel owners, many of whom were greatly benefited by his publicity work, he was also prominently active in the religious and social life of his native city, where he made his home for practically all of his life.
Harrie Badger Coe's father was for many years connected with the Burnham & Morrill Company of Portland, one of the largest canning houses in Maine. He was a bookkeeper and cashier at the time of his death in 1879.
Mr. Coe was educated in the public schools of Portland. At the end of his first year at Portland High School, his father's untimely death made it necessary for him to cut short his pursuit of education and at the age of fourteen years. In 1880 he entered the employ of the Maine Central Railroad Company as an office boy in the passenger traffic department. Receiving frequent promotions to different positions of ever-increasing responsibility and importance, he eventually was made chief clerk of this department.
From this position he resigned in 1908 to form the Priniwell Company, of which he became manager. This company did a large advertising and printing business and under Mr. Coe's very able direction enjoyed a very high reputation. He resigned as its manager in 1917 to accept service with the American Red Cross in France and Italy.
After the end of the World War he returned to Maine from abroad. His health having broken down as the result of the war, he accepted, in 1920, a position with the Great Northern Paper Company and engaged in social service work among this company's lumber camps in the north woods.
He continued in this work for some eighteen months, after which, having regained his health, he returned to Portland and accepted the position of Publicity and Retail Secretary of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. In 1924 he resigned this position, accepting that of General Secretary of the State of Maine Publicity Bureau, of which he has been manager from 1926. He was also secretary of the Maine Hotel Association. In these two offices he did exceptionally able and valuable work in connection with giving publicity to the many great advantages possessed by Maine as a recreation center.
He was widely known throughout the state and made many friends for himself and for his native state amongst the thousands of visitors who came to Maine every summer, many of them visiting the state as the result of the work of his Bureau and frequently relying on its services during their stay. The headquarters of the Bureau, located on Longfellow Square, Portland, became known throughout the country as one of the most efficiently conducted offices of this type, a reputation largely resulting from Mr. Coe's work.
In 1927 he accepted an invitation by the publishers to become editor-in-chief of "Maine Biographies" (Baltimore: Clearfield, 2002), a position for which he was admirably fitted by his unusually extensive knowledge of the history, development and present conditions of all phases of life in Maine. He was also the author of "Maine: Resources, Attractions and Its People, a History."
Mr. Coe's service as a captain with the American Red Cross was very important and offered him still another opportunity to prove his unusual executive ability. He was stationed in France and later in Italy, being placed in charge of the shipping department and of thirty-two warehouses in Italy and Sicily.
He was a member of the Portland Club, of the Board of Governors of which he was a member for several years; the Portland Kiwanis Club; the Round Table; the State Street Parish Club; the Cumberland County Fish & Game Association; the Maine Sportsman's Fish & Game Association; the National Aeronautic Association; the Maine Automobile Association; and the Veterans of Foreign Vars.
In politics he was a supporter of the Republican Party. His religious affiliations were with the Congregational Church, and more particularly with the State Street Congregational Church of Portland.
Mr. Coe married (1) at Portland, September 10, 1895, Gertrude Libby Kilborn, daughter of William T. and Lucietta (Libby) Kilborn. She died in May 1918. He married (2) at Portland, May 24, 1924, Abba N. Harris, daughter of Newton Whitman and Tilly (Huston) Harris. Mrs. Abba (Harris) Coe for many years was prominently active in religious and club circles and prior to their marriage was also widely known in business circles as a member of the firm of Harris & Jackson with headquarters at 5134 Exchange Street, Portland, one of the most successful direct mail service organizations in Maine.
By his first marriage Mr. Coe was the father of two sons: Philip Kilborn Coe, born at Portland, September 26, 1897, manufacturers' sales manager for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of California with headquarters at Los Angeles; and Kilborn Bray Coe, born at Portland, March 25, 1899, vice-president and manager of the Forest City Motor Company of Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Coe made their home at 1563 Forest Avenue, Portland. He died in Portland, Dec. 11, 1949. Burial was at Evergreen Cemetery.
This family's Y-DNA is unique and does not match any other Coe family.
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