73y
Married
Rail Road President
1336 Spring Garden Street, 14th Ward

1883-04-06; Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer
"COFFIN COLKET
The well known capitalist and railroad builder, Coffin Colket, died yesterday morning at his residence on Spring Garden street, in this city, of ossifiation of the heart. During the seventy-four years of his life, Mr. Colket was prominently identified with the Chestnut and Walnut Street Passenger Railway and the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, of both of which he was president, and with very many other railway corporations, in most of which energy and success made him director or manager. He was born in Epping,. N. H., October 15, 1909, and in 1829 contracted with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to erect bridges over the Patapsco and other streams. This was his first important railroad work, after which he entered on an uninterrupted career of construction. In 1831-32 he built the New Castle and Frenchtown and Philadelphia and Columbia roads, and then the Germantown, the Philadelphia and Trenton, the Philadelphia and Norristown, the Rensaelaer and Saratoga, and 22 miles of the Jersey Central, between Elizabeth and Sommerville. In the reorganized Jersey Central, Company, Mr. Colket was for many years a director. He next built part of the Chester Valley Railroad; in 1840 also building the extension of Jersey Central from Plainfield to Bound Brook. After this he had charge of the construction of the Blossburg and Corning road, the Tioga, Willow Street and Southwark, and Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroads, and the Troy and Champlain Canal. He was at his death also president of the Chestnut Hill Railroad and director of the City Bank, and had been at various times director of the Tioga, Chester Valley, Plymouth, Long Island, North Pennsylvania steam, and the Tenth and Eleventh, Green and Coates, and Darby street railroads, as of the Penn Township Bank, Northern Savings Fund, Tioga Improvement Company, Township Line Turnpike Company, Morris Canal Company and Tremont Coal Company."

1850 US Census, Philadelphia, Spring Garden War, #2
COLKET, Coffin, 41y, born NH, lumber merchant
COLKET, Mary P, 30y, born PA
COLKET, William, 9y, born PA
COLKET, George, 6y, born PA
COLKET, Mary, 5y, born PA
COLKET, Anna, 3y, born PA
WILKINS, Anna, 34y, born NJ
CHAMBERS, Jane, 24y, born Ireland
WRIGHT, Annie, 18y, born Scotland

1870 US Census,
COLKET, Coffin, 60y, born NH, [president railroad company
COLKET, Mary, 50y, born PA
COLKET, Henry, 21y, born PA
COLKET, Ida, 19y, born PA
COLKET, Charles, 11y, born PA
McCANN, Mary, 21y, born PA
FREDERICKS, Rosanna, 62y, born Prussia

1880 US Census, Philadelphia
COLKET, Coffin, 70y, born NH, R. R. Pres.
COLKET, M., 60y, born PA, sister
COLKET, H, 30y, born PA, son, conney anser
COLKET, Ida, 28y, born PA, daughter
COLKET, C. H., 20y, born PA, son, bookkeeper
GALLUP, E. C., 42y, born NY, son-in-law, bookkeeper
GALLUP, A. B., 32y, born PA, wife
GALLUP, M. C., 9y, born PA, born DE, son, at school
MATTISON, N., 45y, born DE, black male, servant
HAINES, B., 21y, born NJ, black male, servant
FAILES, Emma, 31y, born NJ, servant
McCANN, M., 32y, born PA, female servant
McCANN, K., 18y, born PA, female servant