. Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Brown, Kewaunee and Door, Wisconsin . or he is as yet ayoung man—as by the eminent successhe has already made of it. He is a native of Wisconsin, bornAugust 26, 1858, in Taycheedah, Fonddu Lac county. The progenitor of thefamil) of which he is a member was ayoung Irish lad who boarded a vessel inIreland and worked his passage across theocean, his labor being subsequently soldout in Boston to pay the rest of his pass-age. He prospered, married, and hadseveral sons who settled in differentStates, one in New York State, probablyin Watertown,
. Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Brown, Kewaunee and Door, Wisconsin . or he is as yet ayoung man—as by the eminent successhe has already made of it. He is a native of Wisconsin, bornAugust 26, 1858, in Taycheedah, Fonddu Lac county. The progenitor of thefamil) of which he is a member was ayoung Irish lad who boarded a vessel inIreland and worked his passage across theocean, his labor being subsequently soldout in Boston to pay the rest of his pass-age. He prospered, married, and hadseveral sons who settled in differentStates, one in New York State, probablyin Watertown, Jefferson county, wherehis decendants became well-to-do David Coffeen, who was afarmer of Watertown, N. Y., was a veryactive man, and in middle life removedwith his family to Calumet county, Wis.,where he resided till he was seventy-twoyears of age, when, having always ex-pressed a desire to die in his old home atWatertown, he removed thither and dieda few weeks afterward. He was a stanchRepublican, taking a deep interest inlocal and State politics, was a man of the. COMMEMORATIVE BIOGMAPHWAL RECORD. 447 most positive character, and possessed ofgreat will He married in Water-town, and had a family of children namedrespecti\ely: Curtis, David, Louis, Por-ter and Emma. Of these, Louis was bornin Watertown, and was a young manof about sixteen when he came to Wis-consin, where he worked for eight dol-lars per month until he was enabled tobuy a piece of land in Fond du Laccounty, afterward accumulating there con-siderable property, including several finefarms. He now resides in Vassar, wife, Lucy (Abner), died at theage of forty-nine years, the mother offive children, of whom our subject is thesecond. Dr. Coffeen is principally a self-madeand self-educated man, his earlier educa-tion having been limited to the districtschools of Fond du Lac count}-, Wis. Atthe age of eighteen years he entered theState Normal School at Oshkosh, payinghis own waj
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