Charles Porter Coffin, B.A. 1881.
Born April 23, 1858, in Batavia, IL.
Died October 14, 1940, in Evanston, IL.
Father, William Coffin (B A Illinois Coll. 1841), teacher at Illinois College and later a banker in Jacksonville, IL, and Batavia, son of Nathaniel Coffin (B A Dartmouth 1799) and Mary (Porter) Coffin of Saco, Maine. Mother, Mary Elizabeth (Lockwood) Coffin, daughter of Samuel Drake and Mary Virginia Stith (Nash) Lockwood of Springfield, IL.
Preparatory school of Ripon College and Philhps-Exeter, attended Ripon College 1877-78 Oration appointment Junior and Senior years, Junior Exhibition and Commencement speaker, on board Yale Daily News a short tune Senior year
Clerk Rio de Janeiro branch C McCulloch Beecher & Company, coffee merchants of New York City, 1881-84, successively with Reid, Murdoch & Fischer, wholesale groceries, R Hoe & Company, printing press manufacturers, and Chicago & Indiana Coal Railway Company (paymaster), all of Chicago, 1884-87, secretary and assistant treasurer Minnesota Iron Company, Chicago, 18 87-1902, credit manager and a director Illinois Steel Company 1902 until retirement 1923, acted as receiver for banks at Hayward, Wis, and Rochester, NY , 1924-25, resided in Evanston 1891-1940, trustee Evanston Public Library 1911- 13; alderman Evanston 1907 and 1908, author Indications of Source for the Accounts of the Last Supper as Given by the Synoptists and by St Paul (1936), translator L'Euchmstte des Ortgtnes a Justin Martyr par Maurice Goguel, contributed to a number of theological journals, historian of the Class of 1881 and compiled A History of the Class of Eighty-One, Vol II, 1907-1929 (1930), active in support of Christopher House, social settlement in Chicago, and of Camp Good Will for women and small children, member Chicago Credit Men's Association (first vice-president 1905, 1906) and First Presbyterian Church, Evanston (trustee 1915-18).
Married January 26, 1886, in Escanaba, Mich, Adeline Chadwick, daughter of Samuel Hart Selden (B A 1848) and Sarah Ann (Lay) Selden and granddaughter of Richard E Selden (B.A 1818) Children. Sarah Lay, the wife of William Leslie Davidson (B S. Michigan State Coll of Agriculture and Applied Science 1913) and William King (died February 25, 1900) Death due to myocarditis Buried in West Batavia (Ill.) Cemetery.
Born April 23, 1858, in Batavia, IL.
Died October 14, 1940, in Evanston, IL.
Father, William Coffin (B A Illinois Coll. 1841), teacher at Illinois College and later a banker in Jacksonville, IL, and Batavia, son of Nathaniel Coffin (B A Dartmouth 1799) and Mary (Porter) Coffin of Saco, Maine. Mother, Mary Elizabeth (Lockwood) Coffin, daughter of Samuel Drake and Mary Virginia Stith (Nash) Lockwood of Springfield, IL.
Preparatory school of Ripon College and Philhps-Exeter, attended Ripon College 1877-78 Oration appointment Junior and Senior years, Junior Exhibition and Commencement speaker, on board Yale Daily News a short tune Senior year
Clerk Rio de Janeiro branch C McCulloch Beecher & Company, coffee merchants of New York City, 1881-84, successively with Reid, Murdoch & Fischer, wholesale groceries, R Hoe & Company, printing press manufacturers, and Chicago & Indiana Coal Railway Company (paymaster), all of Chicago, 1884-87, secretary and assistant treasurer Minnesota Iron Company, Chicago, 18 87-1902, credit manager and a director Illinois Steel Company 1902 until retirement 1923, acted as receiver for banks at Hayward, Wis, and Rochester, NY , 1924-25, resided in Evanston 1891-1940, trustee Evanston Public Library 1911- 13; alderman Evanston 1907 and 1908, author Indications of Source for the Accounts of the Last Supper as Given by the Synoptists and by St Paul (1936), translator L'Euchmstte des Ortgtnes a Justin Martyr par Maurice Goguel, contributed to a number of theological journals, historian of the Class of 1881 and compiled A History of the Class of Eighty-One, Vol II, 1907-1929 (1930), active in support of Christopher House, social settlement in Chicago, and of Camp Good Will for women and small children, member Chicago Credit Men's Association (first vice-president 1905, 1906) and First Presbyterian Church, Evanston (trustee 1915-18).
Married January 26, 1886, in Escanaba, Mich, Adeline Chadwick, daughter of Samuel Hart Selden (B A 1848) and Sarah Ann (Lay) Selden and granddaughter of Richard E Selden (B.A 1818) Children. Sarah Lay, the wife of William Leslie Davidson (B S. Michigan State Coll of Agriculture and Applied Science 1913) and William King (died February 25, 1900) Death due to myocarditis Buried in West Batavia (Ill.) Cemetery.
Charles Porter Coffin, B.A. 1881.
Born April 23, 1858, in Batavia, IL.
Died October 14, 1940, in Evanston, IL.
Father, William Coffin (B A Illinois Coll. 1841), teacher at Illinois College and later a banker in Jacksonville, IL, and Batavia, son of Nathaniel Coffin (B A Dartmouth 1799) and Mary (Porter) Coffin of Saco, Maine. Mother, Mary Elizabeth (Lockwood) Coffin, daughter of Samuel Drake and Mary Virginia Stith (Nash) Lockwood of Springfield, IL.
Preparatory school of Ripon College and Philhps-Exeter, attended Ripon College 1877-78 Oration appointment Junior and Senior years, Junior Exhibition and Commencement speaker, on board Yale Daily News a short tune Senior year
Clerk Rio de Janeiro branch C McCulloch Beecher & Company, coffee merchants of New York City, 1881-84, successively with Reid, Murdoch & Fischer, wholesale groceries, R Hoe & Company, printing press manufacturers, and Chicago & Indiana Coal Railway Company (paymaster), all of Chicago, 1884-87, secretary and assistant treasurer Minnesota Iron Company, Chicago, 18 87-1902, credit manager and a director Illinois Steel Company 1902 until retirement 1923, acted as receiver for banks at Hayward, Wis, and Rochester, NY , 1924-25, resided in Evanston 1891-1940, trustee Evanston Public Library 1911- 13; alderman Evanston 1907 and 1908, author Indications of Source for the Accounts of the Last Supper as Given by the Synoptists and by St Paul (1936), translator L'Euchmstte des Ortgtnes a Justin Martyr par Maurice Goguel, contributed to a number of theological journals, historian of the Class of 1881 and compiled A History of the Class of Eighty-One, Vol II, 1907-1929 (1930), active in support of Christopher House, social settlement in Chicago, and of Camp Good Will for women and small children, member Chicago Credit Men's Association (first vice-president 1905, 1906) and First Presbyterian Church, Evanston (trustee 1915-18).
Married January 26, 1886, in Escanaba, Mich, Adeline Chadwick, daughter of Samuel Hart Selden (B A 1848) and Sarah Ann (Lay) Selden and granddaughter of Richard E Selden (B.A 1818) Children. Sarah Lay, the wife of William Leslie Davidson (B S. Michigan State Coll of Agriculture and Applied Science 1913) and William King (died February 25, 1900) Death due to myocarditis Buried in West Batavia (Ill.) Cemetery.
Born April 23, 1858, in Batavia, IL.
Died October 14, 1940, in Evanston, IL.
Father, William Coffin (B A Illinois Coll. 1841), teacher at Illinois College and later a banker in Jacksonville, IL, and Batavia, son of Nathaniel Coffin (B A Dartmouth 1799) and Mary (Porter) Coffin of Saco, Maine. Mother, Mary Elizabeth (Lockwood) Coffin, daughter of Samuel Drake and Mary Virginia Stith (Nash) Lockwood of Springfield, IL.
Preparatory school of Ripon College and Philhps-Exeter, attended Ripon College 1877-78 Oration appointment Junior and Senior years, Junior Exhibition and Commencement speaker, on board Yale Daily News a short tune Senior year
Clerk Rio de Janeiro branch C McCulloch Beecher & Company, coffee merchants of New York City, 1881-84, successively with Reid, Murdoch & Fischer, wholesale groceries, R Hoe & Company, printing press manufacturers, and Chicago & Indiana Coal Railway Company (paymaster), all of Chicago, 1884-87, secretary and assistant treasurer Minnesota Iron Company, Chicago, 18 87-1902, credit manager and a director Illinois Steel Company 1902 until retirement 1923, acted as receiver for banks at Hayward, Wis, and Rochester, NY , 1924-25, resided in Evanston 1891-1940, trustee Evanston Public Library 1911- 13; alderman Evanston 1907 and 1908, author Indications of Source for the Accounts of the Last Supper as Given by the Synoptists and by St Paul (1936), translator L'Euchmstte des Ortgtnes a Justin Martyr par Maurice Goguel, contributed to a number of theological journals, historian of the Class of 1881 and compiled A History of the Class of Eighty-One, Vol II, 1907-1929 (1930), active in support of Christopher House, social settlement in Chicago, and of Camp Good Will for women and small children, member Chicago Credit Men's Association (first vice-president 1905, 1906) and First Presbyterian Church, Evanston (trustee 1915-18).
Married January 26, 1886, in Escanaba, Mich, Adeline Chadwick, daughter of Samuel Hart Selden (B A 1848) and Sarah Ann (Lay) Selden and granddaughter of Richard E Selden (B.A 1818) Children. Sarah Lay, the wife of William Leslie Davidson (B S. Michigan State Coll of Agriculture and Applied Science 1913) and William King (died February 25, 1900) Death due to myocarditis Buried in West Batavia (Ill.) Cemetery.
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