Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Coe, M S 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

M. S. Coe, general farmer on sec. 12, Hume Township, was born Sept. 21, 1832, 
in Monroe Co., N. Y., and is a son of one of the earliest of the pioneer 
settlers in Whiteside County. The sketch of his brother, S. M. Coe, contains a 
detailed account of his parents, Simeon and Mary Miles Coe. Mr. Coe was in 
early childhood when the family came to Whiteside County. His father died 
while he was yet a lad, and he remained the companion of his mother and sister 
until he was nearly of age. He started his career on his own responsibility as 
a day laborer, and he bought a claim of 160 acres of unimproved land in Jordan 
Township, where his father had located on removal to this county. He was 
married March 28, 1855, in Sterling Township, to Rachel, daughter of Edwin and 
Mary (Spencer) Penrose. The father was of English descent and of Canadian 
parentage, and both were born in Pennsylvania. They went to Ohio when young, 
and were married in that State. They settled on a farm in Belmont County, 
where Mrs. Coe was born Aug. 22, 1835. When she was 11 years of age her 
parents removed to Whiteside County and settled on a farm in Sterling 
Township. They were prominent members of the "Society of Friends," or Quakers. 
In the spring of 1864 they sold their farm and wrent to Keokuk Co., Iowa. 
Later they removed to Jasper County, in the same State, where the mother died, 
when 66 years old. The father returned to Keokuk County, and died there, aged 
72 years. Mr. and Mrs. Coe have two children: Edwin M., who was born Jan. 5, 
1858, and married Adele Mahgan: they reside in Hopkins Township, and have two 
children,—Albert E. and Lauren M.; Albert L. was born Sept. 27, 1861; he 
married Eva B. Bancroft, and is managing his father's property. Mr. and Mrs. 
Coe located on the farm in Jordan Township, which Mr. Coe put in good farming 
condition and afterwards sold. In 1869 he came to Hume Township, where he 
purchased 200 acres of land as a beginning, on section 12, and later added 40 
acres adjoining on section 11. The farm is one of the best improved and most 
valuable in the township. The dwelling is of the finest type and the stock on 
the farm is well graded. Mr. Coe ranks as a leading agriculturist. He is 
prominent as an uncompromising Republican, and has been Township Trustee for 
six years. He has been Trustee in the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he 
and his wife are earnest members.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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