Samuel W. Coffin and Elizabeth Shaffer

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Husband Samuel W. Coffin ¹

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           Born: 16 Dec 1832 - Catskill, Greene Co, NY 1
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           Died: 23 Jul 1913 - Fairfield, Jefferson Co, IA 1
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       Marriage: 24 Jun 1869 - Fairfield, Jefferson Co, IA 1

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Wife Elizabeth Shaffer ¹

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           Born: 12 Jan 1826 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Shaffer (1776-1863) 1
         Mother: Charlotte Slagle (1792-1846) 1

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   Other Spouse: Dr. John Thompson Huey (1819/1821-1864/1865) 1 2 - 25 Oct 1849 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 1

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel W. Coffin

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He was born in Catskill, New York, and lived there through his young boyhood. When the gold fever was raging in 1849 he went with others to the California gold fields. From there he took up the business of freighting on the Old Oregon Trail and in Idaho, finally settling in Portland, Oregon. Having succeeded in his quest for fortune in the gold fields, he went south to Georgia and invested his money in cotton and had a great quantity of it on the wharves at Atlanta, ready for shipment, when General Sherman with his troops reached there during the war. The cotton being considered contraband of war, was promptly burned and Mr. Coffin lost a fortune. He then returned North and after the close of the Civil War he went to, and located in, Fairfield, Iowa. Mr. Coffin joined the Masons when he was twenty-one years of age and was a member of that order for upwards of sixty years, and probably was the oldest Master Mason in Iowa. He affiliated with Clinton Lodge No. 15, A. F. and A. M., in Fairfield, August 8th, 1871, and was an active member of it until his death. He was a faithful and consistent member of the First Presbyterian Church of Fairfield. For a number of years he was in the harness business in Fairfield in partnership with John R. Shaffer.

1 Ella Campbell Slagle Nichols, Family Record (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately published, 1914).

2 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 218.