COE COLLEGE I've noticed numerous posts on Deacon Daniel Coe, founder of Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA, and thought I should perhaps put forth some information on him to clear the record. Daniel Coe, who was born May 26, 1794, in Durham, NY, was a son of Daniel and Martha Coe of Durham, CT, Freehold, NY, and Durham, NY. He married (1) Rebecca Clark, daughter of Jacob Clark of Plainfield, MA; (2) Mercy Wattles. He taught school for a few years before becoming a farmer. While traveling in the west in 1852, he invested $1500 in land in Cedar Rapids, IA, which he deeded in 1853 toward the foundation of the "Cedar Rapids Collegiate Institute." The trustees purchased two lots in downtown Cedar Rapids plus 80 acres at the edge of town with Coe's money. The school operated for several years as the Cedar Rapids Institute, then was known as "Parsons Seminary," and as "Coe Collegiate Institute." In 1881 the institution was incorporated as a college and named "Coe College" in honor of its first donor. A deacon in the Congregational Church, Daniel Coe became interested in the education of Blacks in the South and in 1869 sold his farm in Greene County, NY, and moved to Talladega, AL. There he took charge of mission work among local Blacks. He died there March 3, 1872. Child: 1. May Rebecca, b. Oct. 24, 1846, in Durham, NY; m. Dr. James Erastus Jewell, MD, son of James and Almira (Day) Jewell. Their son James Ralph Jewell was later Dean of the College of Education, University of Arkansas. Mary (Coe) Jewell lived at Moran, KS, in 1941. I hope this is helpful. Carl Robert Coe