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Representative Samuel Coffin View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 5/6/1880
Birth Place: North Carolina
Party Affiliation: Whig
Assemblies Served:
House: 4 (1852) - 5 (1854)
Home County: Mahaska
Samuel Coffin
Mahaska County
Farmer, Oskaloosa; born in North Carolina in 1808; came to Iowa in 1842, and to this county in 1844; He has been trice married; in 1830 to Sophia Fisler; she was born in Indiana in 1814; married again in 1851 to Susan Lyster; she was born in Indiana in 1833; Mr. Coffin represented this county two years in the legislature; was justice five years.
Sources:
House District 33
Committees
5th GA (1854)
Legislation Sponsored
5th GA (1854)