Background
Coffin, Selden Jennings was born on August 3, 1838 in Ogdensburg, New York, United States. Son of late Professor James Henry and Aurelia M. (Jennings) C.
Coffin, Selden Jennings was born on August 3, 1838 in Ogdensburg, New York, United States. Son of late Professor James Henry and Aurelia M. (Jennings) C.
Bachelor of Arts, Lafayette College, 1858, Master of Arts, 1861. Graduate Princeton Theological Seminary, 1864. (Doctor of Philosophy, Hanover College, 1876).
2d, Emma F. Angle, December 23, 1891. Tutor and Adjunct Professor mathematics, 1864-1876, professor, 1876-1886, registrar, 1886-1904, professor astronomy, since 1873, Lafayette College Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1874. Author: Conic Sections, 1878.
Record of the Men of Louisiana Fayette, 1891.
Compiled his father’s The Winds of the Globe, 1876. Revised Olmsted’s Astronomy, 1882.
Home: Easton, Pennsylvania
Married Mary A. Angle, New Jersey, December 22, 1875 (died 1889).