State Senator 1892. Suggested edit: COFFEY, Charles,WholesaleFruit-dealer,Gran- by,wasborninthattown,May4,1852. Hisedu cation was acquired at the Southwick (Massachu setts) Academy and the Literary Institute, Suffield, Connecticut. Hewasengagedexclusivelyinfarm ing until 1887, when he entered the fruit trade as a member of the firm of Stults & Coffey. That con cern consolidated later with the well-known New York house of J. H. Kellough & Company and is today among the few large operators in this state, handling an average of one hundred thousand barrels ofapples annually, which are received from the fruit growing states and the Dominion of Canada. Mr. Coffey served as a Selectman of
Granbyf tohreeyears,wasamemberoftheLegis lature for the years 1891-92, entered the State Senate in 1893 and was re-elected in 1895, being assigned to the Railroad Committee in the last- namedbody. InpoliticsheisaRepublican. He is connected with St. Mark's Lodge No. 91, Free and Accepted Masons, and is a member of the FirstCongregationalChurchofGranby. Hemar ried Mary E. Colton, of Granby, and they have two
sons : Charles Harmon, aged fourteen, and Frank William Coffey, aged six years.

-- Herndon R. (1898). Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in and of the state of new hampshire. New England Magazine.

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State Senator 1892. Suggested edit: COFFEY, Charles,WholesaleFruit-dealer,Gran- by,wasborninthattown,May4,1852. Hisedu cation was acquired at the Southwick (Massachu setts) Academy and the Literary Institute, Suffield, Connecticut. Hewasengagedexclusivelyinfarm ing until 1887, when he entered the fruit trade as a member of the firm of Stults & Coffey. That con cern consolidated later with the well-known New York house of J. H. Kellough & Company and is today among the few large operators in this state, handling an average of one hundred thousand barrels ofapples annually, which are received from the fruit growing states and the Dominion of Canada. Mr. Coffey served as a Selectman of
Granbyf tohreeyears,wasamemberoftheLegis lature for the years 1891-92, entered the State Senate in 1893 and was re-elected in 1895, being assigned to the Railroad Committee in the last- namedbody. InpoliticsheisaRepublican. He is connected with St. Mark's Lodge No. 91, Free and Accepted Masons, and is a member of the FirstCongregationalChurchofGranby. Hemar ried Mary E. Colton, of Granby, and they have two
sons : Charles Harmon, aged fourteen, and Frank William Coffey, aged six years.

-- Herndon R. (1898). Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in and of the state of new hampshire. New England Magazine.

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