Coe, Philemon Elmer

Coe, Philemon Elmer a Protestant Episcopal minister, was born in New York City, June 20, 1815. He graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1834, spent two years thereafter in Princeton Theological Seminary, and graduated at the Union Theological Seminary in 1839. He was ordained to the ministry in the Protestant Episcopal Church, June 30, 1843; became rector at Hammondsport, N.Y., in 1844, and was home missionary at Medina and Royalton, from 1845 to 1850. His next engagements were as home missionary at Stafford, rector at Plainfield and Scotch Plains (1851-59), and at Westfield, N.J., where he died, December 20, 1873. (W.P.S.)