Robert Adams Coker correspondence, 1823-1832.

Harvard University

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Coker, Robert Adams, 1807-1833.

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West Newbury, Massachusetts, native and mathematics teacher. Robert Adams Coker of West Newbury, Massachusetts, was born in 1807 and died in 1833, only eighteen months after graduation from Harvard College. His class of 1831 included a handful of prominent mid-nineteenth century names, among them Wendell Phillips, the anti-slavery orator. His major field of study was mathematics, which he taught in two schools after college: an academy in Francestown, New Hampshire, in 1...