Background
Coffin, Charles Albert was born in December 1844 in Somerset Company, Maine, United States. Son of Albert and Anstrus (Varney) Coffin.
Coffin, Charles Albert was born in December 1844 in Somerset Company, Maine, United States. Son of Albert and Anstrus (Varney) Coffin.
Doctor of Laws, Union, 1914, Bowdoin, 1922, Princeton, 1924. Master of Arts, Yale, 1919.
Review E. Russell, of Holbrook, Massachusetts, September 1872. Children—E. R. (deceased), Mistress Starling W. Childs, Alice S. President General Electric Company from its organization until June 1913, and Chairman of the Board until May 1922. Organized War Relief Clearing House for France and her allies, early in 1915, later consolidated with American Red Cross.
Active in work of America Red Cross throughout the war.
Married Caroline, d. Children: E. R. (deceased), Mistress Starling W. Childs, Alice S. President.