Coffin, Stephen

Coffin, Stephen a Free-will Baptist minister, was born at Alton, N.H., March 8, 1792, the youngest of fourteen children. He was converted at the age of twenty-one, and in 1839 became a member of the Church in Wolfborough. In the winter of 1841 he was ordained, and afterwards labored as an evangelist, spending most of the autumns and winters in preaching to destitute churches, and holding protracted meetings for nearly a year in Wisconsin and Illinois. He died in Dover, N.H., March 4, 1867. See Free-will Baptist Register, 1868, page 88. (J.C.S.)