BIOGRAPHY

A.D. COFFIN - OF OAKFIELD, NY

Coffin, A. D., P.O. Oakfield, N. Y., was born in Middlefield, N. Y., October 10, 1845, a son of Ferran and Harriet (North) Coffin. He was educated in the common schools and commenced farming, making a specialty of hop raising. In 1875 he began the manufacture of a fertilizer for his own use and afterwards started a large factory in Oneonta, N. Y. He came to Oakfield in 1891, and started a plant of seventy-five tons capacity per day, the product of which found a wide distribution. Mr. Coffin married Charlotte, daughter of George Parchall of Otsego County; their children are Luella, Gilbert and George.

Source: Our County and its people, A descriptive work on Genesee County, New York, Edited by: F. W. Beers, J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890