O. Vincent Coffin papers, 1852-1921.

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O. Vincent Coffin papers, 1852-1921.

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Primarily family, business and political correspondence of a Middletown, Connecticut, banker and insurance executive who also served as Middletown's mayor, as a state senator and as Governor. Among the topics covered in his letters are the coming of the railroad to Middletown, suggestions for or opinions about state legislation, the settlement of Andrew C. Denison's estate and the guardianship of his son William, musical performances, elections, and the construction of a bridge over the Connecticut River from Middletown. His correspondents included the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, Oliver H. Platt, Joseph R. Hawley, Sydney Crofut, the Evangelical Alliance, and Nehemiah D. Sperry. Of interest are two letters about the Whipple Home School for the Deaf in Mystic, an 1895 letter from Addie Stancliff Hale about women's right to vote, a docket of petitions before the Board of Pardons, and information concerning the activities of the state Fisheries Commission. The collection also includes letter books, deeds, scrapbooks, a journal written in 1853 while he toured upstate New York, a volume of conservator's records, 1895-1900, records of the Evangelical Alliance, a volume devoted to insurance legislation, a memorandum book, records of the Music Hall Building and Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co., records and correspondence of the Nebraska Real Estate and Livestock Association, records of the Middlesex Mutual Assurance Company, records of the Farmers & Mechanics Savings Bank of Middletown, information about the Brooklyn (N.Y.) YMCA, information about the Young Republicans Club, Ellen Elizabeth Coe's diploma from the Hartford Female Seminary, a map of a cemetery in Middletown, and personal accounts and bills and receipts.

6.5 linear feet (10 boxes, 22 volumes).

Connecticut Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7275943

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Connecticut. Governor (1895-1897 : Coffin).

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Coffin, Owen Vincent, 1836-1921.

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Coffin was born in Mansfield, New York. Completing his own education, he taught school, then moved to New York City where he was a salesman and president of the Brooklyn YMCA. After moving to Connecticut in 1864, Coffin served as executive officer of the Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank, served as Mayor of Middletown from 1872-1873, was president of the Middlesex Mutual Assurance Company, was elected to the state senate where he served in 1887 and 1889, was elected governor of Connecticut in 1...

Evangelical Alliance

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Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell), 1826-1905

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Former Union general; U.S. senator from Connecticut (1881-1905). From the description of Autograph memorandum, [between 1881-1905]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70973305 American Amry officer; United States senator from Connecticut. From the description of Autograph telegram signed : Wilmington, N.C., to Major Prince, 1865 May 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270479165 The April 29, 1868 issue of the Hartford (Conn.) Post, page 2, column 2, quotes fr...

Nebraska Real Estate & Livestock Association.

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Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co. (Middletown, Conn.)

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Coffin, Ellen Elizabeth Coe.

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Platt, Orville Hitchcock, 1827-1905

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Republican lawyer who served as secretary of state of Connecticut, 1857-58, as member of Connecticut state senate and house of representatives, and U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1879-1905. Died in office 1905. From the description of Letter, June 28, 1882. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53882387 U.S. senator, public official, and lawyer of Connecticut. From the description of Signature of Orville Hitchcock Platt, 1865. (Unknown). Wor...