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New York importing house and in 1852 opened a bookstore in Elmira, N. Y. He succeeded Thomas B. Aldrich as associate editor of the Home Jour- nal, was art critic of the Evening Post, edited The Table, devoted to gastronomy, and contributed on that subject to the Caterer, Pliiladelphia. He contributed to periodicals under the pen name "Barry Gray."" His published works include My Married Life at IliUside (I860); Out of Ton- n (1866); Cakes and Ale at Woodbine (1868); Ca>>tles in the Air, and other Phantasies (1871); and The Home of Cooper (1872). He died at Fordham, N.Y, June 10, 1886.

COFFIN, Roland Folger, journalist, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 8, 1826. He spent his 3'outh at Nantucket, Mass., and became a sailor. He was captain of the ship Senator, 1850-60, and in the latter year joined the U.S. navy as acting master, serving in the North Atlantic blockading squadron. 1861-63. In 1869 he published An Old Sailor's Yarns. He became a reporter of marine news and yachting and was a contributor to the daily New York journals. He published Straus (1859); The America's Cup: How it loas Won by the Yacht America in 1851 and has Since been Defended (1885); History of American Yachtimj (1886) . He died on Shelter island, Suffolk county, N.Y., July 17, 1888.

COFFIN, 5elden Jennings, educator, was born in Ogdensburg, N.Y., Aug. 3, 1838; son of James Henry and Aurelia Medici (Jennings) Coffin; grandson of Matthew Coffin, banker, of Northampton, Mass., and of the Eev. Ebenezer Jennings, of Dalton, Mass., and a descendant of Tristram Coffin. He was graduated at Lafay- ette college, where his father was professor of mathematics and astronomy, in the class of 1858, and at the theological seminary, Princeton, N.J., in 1864. He then accejited a tutorship in Lafayette college, was made adjunct j^rofessor of mathematics and at the death of his father in 1873 succeeded to his chair. In 1874 he was or- dained by the presbytery of Lehigh. He was elected a member of the American association for the advancement of science in 1874, and served on important committees. Besides contribu- ting to scientific journals articles on meteor- ology he completed The Winds of the Globe (1875), written by his father; revised Olmsted' s Astron- omy (1882); and published Lafayette College: Its History, Its Men and Their Becord (1879)

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(Atkinson), great* graudsoii of Tristram, Sr., and Judith (Greenleaf), and great* grandson of Tris- tram and Dionis (Stevens) Coffin, who came from Devonshire, England, to Massachusetts in 1642. He was graduated at Yale in 1874 and studied drawing under Prof. John F. Weir, in his senior year. He went to Paris in Oc- tober, 1877, and be- came a pupil of Leon Bonnat. His first pictures w^ere exhib- ited at the Paris salon in 1879, 1880, 1882. Returning to the United States in 1882 he settled in New York and exhib- ited regularly in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chi- cago, and other cities. He was elected a member of the So- ciety of American artists. New York; an asso- ciate of the National academy of design, and a member of the Architectural league and the Salmagundi club. He received the second Hall- garten prize for "Moonlight in Harvest,"" at the National academy of design in 1886, also a bronze medal at Paris universal exposition in 1889. He also received the Webb prize for landscape at the exhibition of the Society of American artists in 1891, for '" The Rain." This picture is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan musemn of art. New York. In 1898 he was awarded the gold medal of the Philadel- phia (Pa.) art club. He was art critic of the New York Evening Post and The Xation, 1886-91, and subsequently of the New York Sun, and con- tributed numerous articles on art topics to the magazines. Among his works are: Vne Auberge en Bretagne (1879); Une Academic de Peinture Moderns (1879); Joueur de Mandoline (1880); Le Pere Jean (1880); The Close of Day (1883); Moonlight in Harvest (1886); Early Moonrise (1888); The Septem- ber Breeze (1889); A Pennsylvania Farm, after the Thunder Shoirer (1890); Evening (1892); Dawn (1893); xi Starlight Night (1894); The Bed Barn (1894); Winter in Pennsylvania and Sunrise in January (1896); At Break of Day (1897), and Spring Time and September (1898).

COFFIN, William Anderson, painter and critic, was born at Alleglienj- Cit}', Pa., Jan. 31, 1855; son of James Gardiner and Isabel Catherine (An- derson), grandson of Nathan Emery and Eunice (Coffin), great-grandson of Eliphalet and Lydia (Emery), great- grandson of John and Hannah (Cheney), great^ grandson of Stephen and Sarah

COFFROTH, Alexander iiamilton, represen- tative, was born in Somerset, Pa., May 18, 1828; .son of John and Mary M. (Besore) Coffroth, and grandson of John Coffroth, a Revolutionarj' sol- dier. His father was of Teutonic origin and a native of Hagerstown, Md., and his mother was born in Franklin county, Pa. They removed to