Coe, Jonas, Dd

Coe, Jonas, D.D.

a Presbyterian minister, was born March 20, 1759. He was educated at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J.; studied theology privately; was taken under the care of the New York Presbytery in 1790, and was licensed to preach in 1791. In 1792 he accepted a call to the united congregations of Troy and Lansingburg, where he labored effectually for eleven years, and afterwards at Troy alone, until his death in 1842. He was a faithful pastor and an able minister. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 3:576.