Youngest Child of Daniel L. and Elizabeth (Bill) Coit. After his graduation he went to New York City to study law, and settling there had a successful career as a member of the bar, during which he accumulated a large fortune. He retired from practice in 1860, and then made a prolonged visit to Europe. Returning in the fall of 1864, he settled in New Haven, Conn., where he spent the rest of his life, making his home with the only surviving member of his family, the widow of Pelatiah Petit(Y.C. 1802). After a year's ill health, caused by an affection of the heart, he died, in New Haven, Oct. 8, 1881, in his 82nd year. He was never married.
By his last will the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars was bequeathed to the College Library.
- Source is Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College June 1882.
Thank you to Mary Russell for sharing the above information.
The link below is to a collection in the Connecticut State Library. It has a scrapbook from a trip to Europe, a letter written to a niece and some memoirs.
1870 Census:
He is listed with Maria Perit, whom he rests next to in Grove Street Cemetery, and by 1880, he is a retired lawyer.
By his last will the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars was bequeathed to the College Library.
- Source is Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College June 1882.
Thank you to Mary Russell for sharing the above information.
The link below is to a collection in the Connecticut State Library. It has a scrapbook from a trip to Europe, a letter written to a niece and some memoirs.
1870 Census:
He is listed with Maria Perit, whom he rests next to in Grove Street Cemetery, and by 1880, he is a retired lawyer.
Youngest Child of Daniel L. and Elizabeth (Bill) Coit. After his graduation he went to New York City to study law, and settling there had a successful career as a member of the bar, during which he accumulated a large fortune. He retired from practice in 1860, and then made a prolonged visit to Europe. Returning in the fall of 1864, he settled in New Haven, Conn., where he spent the rest of his life, making his home with the only surviving member of his family, the widow of Pelatiah Petit(Y.C. 1802). After a year's ill health, caused by an affection of the heart, he died, in New Haven, Oct. 8, 1881, in his 82nd year. He was never married.
By his last will the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars was bequeathed to the College Library.
- Source is Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College June 1882.
Thank you to Mary Russell for sharing the above information.
The link below is to a collection in the Connecticut State Library. It has a scrapbook from a trip to Europe, a letter written to a niece and some memoirs.
1870 Census:
He is listed with Maria Perit, whom he rests next to in Grove Street Cemetery, and by 1880, he is a retired lawyer.
By his last will the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars was bequeathed to the College Library.
- Source is Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College June 1882.
Thank you to Mary Russell for sharing the above information.
The link below is to a collection in the Connecticut State Library. It has a scrapbook from a trip to Europe, a letter written to a niece and some memoirs.
1870 Census:
He is listed with Maria Perit, whom he rests next to in Grove Street Cemetery, and by 1880, he is a retired lawyer.
Gravesite Details
http://www.cslib.org/archives/Finding_Aids/RG074_064.html
Family Members
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