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Coffin family photographs

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Call Number:
PA.145
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
.54 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], Coffin family photographs, PA 145, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Date:
1850-1916 (inclusive)
Creator:
Coffin family
Abstract:
The Coffin family were Quakers of Wayne County, Indiana. Elijah Coffin was born in 1793 in Guilford County, N.C., the son of Bethuel and Hannah Dicks Coffin. His son and daughter-in-law, Charles F. and Rhoda M. Coffin were active in the peace movement, prison reform, reform of the treatment of the insane, and the temperance movement. Father and son both served as Clerk of Indiana Yearly Meeting. This collection contains family portrait albums and films and Kodax of family homes.

Elijah Coffin was born in 1793 in Guilford County, N.C., the son of Bethuel and Hannah Dicks Coffin. He married Naomi Hiatt in 1820, and the family moved to Milton, Indiana, in 1824. Elijah worked as a banker, and the family moved for a short time to Cincinnati and then to Richmond, Indiana. Benjamin and Elizabeth Hiatt, Naomi's parents, also migrated to Indiana at the same time, together with Naomi's brother, Mordecai, and his family. Charles F. Coffin, the son of Elijah, was born in 1823 and married Rhoda Moorman Johnson in 1847; he was employed as a banker. Charles F. and Rhoda M. Coffin were active in the peace movement, prison reform, reform of the treatment of the insane, and the temperance movement. He succeeded his father as Clerk of Indiana Yearly Meeting from 1857 to 1884. Charles F. and Rhoda M. Coffin's youngest son, Percival Brooks Coffin, also a banker and active in Quaker and philanthropic causes, was born in 1865. He married Lucy V. Baxter and was one of the original members of the 57th Street Meeting in Chicago.

This collection contains family portrait albums and films and Kodax of family homes.

Gift of Mrs. Bennett Cooper (Emily Fletcher Cooper), 1961-1964. Lucy Vincent Baxter (born 1868) was a daughter of William Baxter and his second wife, Mary Ellen. She married Percival Brooks Coffin. The donor, Mrs. Bennett Cooper (Emily Fletcher Cooper), was their niece. Part of Coffin family papers, RG5/029.

This collection was removed from Coffin family papers, RG5/029.

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
Zoe Peyton Jones
Finding Aid Date
2018
Access Restrictions

This collection is available for research use.

Use Restrictions

Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.

Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Portraits of class members. Photographed at J. F. Barks' Star Gallery, Richmond, Indiana.

PA 145/01/001. Charles F. Coffin—Age 39.
Box 1
PA 145/01/002. Elijah Coffin—Age 14.
Box 1
PA 145/01/003. Mary B. Johnson.
Box 1
PA 145/01/004. Lizzie B. Johnson.
Box 1
PA 145/01/005. Sylvania Maxwell.
Box 1
PA 145/01/006. Sarah (Sallie) Williams.
Box 1
PA 145/01/007. Amy E. Johnson.
Box 1
PA 145/01/008. Sarah Elma Hough (Huff).
Box 1
PA 145/01/009. Sarah Maxwell.
Box 1
PA 145/01/010. Anna E. Burson.
Box 1
PA 145/01/011. Sarah Hussey.
Box 1
PA 145/01/012. Rebecca Johnson.
Box 1
PA 145/01/013. Martha A. (M.) Murphey.
Box 1
PA 145/01/014. Priscilla White.
Box 1
PA 145/01/015. Letitia Smith.
Box 1
PA 145/01/016. Lucinda Jenkins.
Box 1
PA 145/01/017. Mary Jane Winder.
Box 1
PA 145/01/018. Sarah Henley.
Box 1
PA 145/01/019. Mary Maxwell.
Box 1
PA 145/01/020. Mary Pedrick.
Box 1
PA 145/01/021. Mary Townsend.
Box 1
PA 145/01/022. Mattie Clawson.
Box 1
PA 145/01/023. Lucy Lewis.
Box 1
PA 145/01/024. Paulina Thomas.
Box 1
PA 145/01/025. Sallie Mendenhall.
Box 1
PA 145/01/026. Sallie Clawson.
Box 1
PA 145/01/027. Mary Hunt.
Box 1
PA 145/01/028. Anna Valentine.
Box 1
PA 145/01/029. Lucy Lewis.
Box 1
PA 145/02. Album of portraits of Charles F. Coffin 10/1905 (aged 83).
Box 1
Scope and Contents

18 photos. Note on back cover reads: "To Grandmother. From Charles Francis Coffin, Trisham R. Coffin, J. Roberts Coffin, Ralston R. Coffin. November 1905." Deteriorated leather cover discarded.

PA 145/03. Two albums of portraits of Rhoda M. Coffin 9/1906 (aged 81).
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Deteriorated leather covers discarded. 12 portraits in PA 145/03.1, and 13 portraits in PA 145/03.2

PA 145/04/001. Rhoda Coffin (?).
Box 2
PA 145/04/002. Charles F. Coffin.
Box 2
PA 145/04/003. William Edward Coffin—May 1915.
Box 2
PA 145/04/004. Francis H. Coffin, Grandson of Charles F. Coffin.
Box 2
PA 145/04/005. Elijah Coffin (engraving), Naomi Coffin (oval, scanned).
Box 2
PA 145/04/006. Howells Coffin and family.
Box 2
PA 145/04/007. Charles F. Coffin and great-grandson.
Box 2
PA 145/04/008. Charles and Rhoda Coffin, 5 sons and 4 wives.
Box 2
PA 145/04/009. Charles F. Coffin and son, Howells Coffin and son.
Box 2
PA 145/04/010. Charles and Rhoda M. Coffin and sons.
Box 2
PA 145/04/011. Charles and Rhoda Coffin, sons and 2 wives, grandson and wife.
Box 2
PA 145/04/012. The Late Joseph Sturge, Birmingham (died 5/1859).
Box 2
PA 145/04/013. The Earl of Shaftesbury.
Box 2
PA 145/04/014. J.B. Braithwaite.
Box 2
PA 145/04/015. Jordans Graveyard.
Box 2
PA 145/04/016. Jordans Meeting House.
Box 2
PA 145/04/017. Thomas Ellwood's abode—Hunger Hill.
Box 2
PA 145/04/018. Percival B. Coffin and Lucy Coffin.
Box 2
PA 145/04/019. Percival Coffin.
Box 2
PA 145/04/020. William H. Coffin.
Box 2
PA 145/04/021. Portrait of woman, labeled "For my dear brother Chas"—1876.
Box 2
PA 145/04/022. Rhoda Coffin, John Roberts, and Charles F. Coffin in front, Charles Francis, William Edward, Lydia and Bell's brother (?) behind them. Photo taken by Mary Bell at their summer home on the Hudson before she and John Roberts were married.
Box 2
PA 145/04/023. Chicago (?) home of Charles F. and Rhoda M. Coffin (?).
Box 2
PA 145/04/024. William Hiatt Coffin (?), brother of Charles Fisher Coffin.
Box 2
PA 145/04/025. Wife of William Hiattt Coffin (?).
Box 2
PA 145/04/026. Photos taken of Francis A.by his wife Flora R. at their own home (3 photos).
Box 2
PA 145/04/027. Photos of the Charles's: Charles F. Coffin, Charles H. Coffin, and Charles F. Coffin, jr. (2 photos).
Box 2
PA 145/04/028. Photos of Charles F. and Rhoda M. Coffin in their library (2 photos).
Box 2
PA 145/04/029. Photos of Charles F. and Rhoda M. Coffin on their front door step (2 photos).
Box 2
PA 145/04/030. Tristram R. Coffin, 12 years old in 1888.
Box 2
PA 145/04/031. Ralston R. Coffin, 5 years old in 1888.
Box 2
PA 145/04/032. Roberts (?), 17 years old in 1898.
Box 2
PA 145/04/033. Charles F. Coffin (?).
Box 2
PA 145/04/034. Rhoda M. Coffin (?).
Box 2
PA 145/04/035. Rhoda M. Coffin (?).
Box 2
PA 145/04/036. Rhoda M. Coffin, Philadelphia 1855.
Box 2
PA 145/04/037. boy.
Box 2
PA 145/04/038. 60th Anniversary of Charles F. and Rhoda M. Coffin, 1907.
Box 2
PA 145/04/039. Uncle William Hiatt Coffin's 50th Wedding Anniversary.
Box 2
PA 145/04/040. Rhoda M. Coffin and Charles Henry Coffin, c. 1854. See also glass plate reproducing old daguerrotype, also in box.
Box 2

PA 145/05/001. Elizabeth Coffin, widow of Richard Coffin, b. 1571.
Box 2
PA 145/05/002. Dorothy Coffin, first wife of Richard Coffin.
Box 2
PA 145/05/003. Richard Coffin (Sheriff), 1699.
Box 2
PA 145/05/004. Anne, daughter of second wife of Richard Coffin.
Box 2
PA 145/05/005. Elizabeth Coffin, widow of John Coffin, 1590-1644.
Box 2
PA 145/05/006. Richard Coffin.
Box 2
PA 145/05/007. Dorothy, eldest daughter of Richard and Dorothy Coffin, d. 1689.
Box 2
PA 145/05/008. Catharine, second daughter of Richard and Dorothy Coffin.
Box 2

Scope and Contents

"From where my grandfather migrated to" –P.B. Coffin

PA 145/06/001. field.
Box 2
PA 145/06/002. field.
Box 2
PA 145/06/003. farm house.
Box 2
PA 145/06/004. road.
Box 2
PA 145/06/005. cemetery.
Box 2
PA 145/06/006. large house.
Box 2

Scope and Contents

Captions by P.B. Coffin.

PA 145/07/001. House on South Front St., Richmond, Ind., still standing in 1931. First home of Charles F. and Rhoda M. Coffin in March 1847.
Box 2
PA 145/07/002. The old market house in Richmond, Ind. Built around 1845 near the corner of Pearl and Market Streets.
Box 2
PA 145/07/003. The Hannah and Jeanette Kennedy home on Washington St., Richmond, Ind., opposite the last home occupied by the parents of P.B. Coffin, 186- to 1884.
Box 2
PA 145/07/004. The Whitewater River, where the old State Road crossed-by-ford until the Nath Road was finished in the 1840s. Near Richmond, Ind.
Box 2
PA 145/07/005. An old smoke house in Milton, Ind. in 1916. Used to be on the farm of P.B. Coffin's father's maternal uncle in 1824.
Box 2
PA 145/07/006. Symons Creek near Milton, Ind., on which Thomas Symons built the first corn mill in the history of Wayne County.
Box 2
PA 145/07/007. Second home occupied by Charles F. and Rhoda M. Coffin about 1851. On Front Street in Richmond, Ind., one half square south of Main St.
Box 2
PA 145/07/008. Building on the southeast corner of the old State Road, a part of which was probably used by Elijah Coffin as a store.
Box 2
PA 145/07/009. Southwest corner of the old State Road, Milton, Ind., 1916.
Box 2
PA 145/07/010. Milton, Ind., 1916. The old Thomas Symons Farm, opened 1811.
Box 2
PA 145/07/011. The old cemetery for Milford Friends Meeting House, 1916.
Box 2
PA 145/07/012. South end of C.F. Coffin's third home in Richmond, Ind., arrow pointing to library. 1916.
Box 2
PA 145/07/013.1. Elijah Coffin's House on South Washington St. Richmond Ind., 1916.
Box 2
PA 145/07/013.2. The last home of Elijah and Naomi Coffin, South Washington St. Richmond, Ind. 1916.
Box 2
PA 145/07/014. The home of Uncle Jimmy Mendenhall and Aunt Millicent Coffin Mendenhall. Nath Road West. Richmond, Ind. 1916.
Box 2
PA 145/07/015. House exterior.
Box 2
PA 145/08. Album of portraits of Percival Brooke Coffin 12/1908.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

12 photos. Deteriorated leather cover discarded.

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