Biography
Abel Coffin (d. 1837) captained a number of ships for a company based in Boston (Mass.) and engaged in trans-Atlantic trade. Dr. John Angier Hyde and Dr. Ephraim A. Hyde were Massachusetts physicians (1790s-1840s). A member of the Hyde family was a prisoner-of-war at Andersonville (Ga.) Prison during the Civil War. In 1858 some members of the Hyde family sailed to California on the "Dakota." They settled in San Francisco and in Marin County. John Pitcher Spooner, prominent 19th c. photographer of Stockton (Calif.), was related to the Coffin and Hyde families.
From the guide to the Coffin-Hyde Family Papers, 1791-1877, (University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections)
