CHARLES EDWARD COFFIN

Coffin, Charles Edward (1841-1912), a Representative from Maryland; born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., July 18, 1841; attended the Boston grammar and high schools; moved to Maryland in 1863 and settled in Muirkirk, Prince Georges County, where he took charge of the ironworks; member of the State house of delegates in 1884; served in the State senate 1890-1894; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Barnes Compton; reelected on the same day to the Fifty-fourth Congress and served from November 6, 1894, to March 3, 1897; engaged in the manufacture of charcoal pig iron, and subsequently became the owner of the Muirkirk blast furnaces; died in Muirkirk, Prince George's County, Md., May 24, 1912; interment in St. John’s Protestant Episcopal Church Cemetery, Beltsville, Md.
Spouse: Catherine R. [Coffin] b. abt 1841 Delaware
Children:
Mattie L Coffin b. abt 1864 Maryland
Ellery F Coffin b. abt 1867 Maryland
Rachel J Coffin b. abt 1868 Maryland
Marion F. Coffin b. abt 1871 Maryland
Mary K. Coffin b. abt 1873 Maryland
Harriet Coffin b. abt 1875 New Jersey
Constance H. Coffin b. abt 1877 Maryland

Sources:
U.S. Federal Census
Family Collections LDS
The Political Graveyard
Submitted by Deborah Crowell