Biographical Sketch of Joel T. Coffee, M. D., Crawford County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Joel T. Coffee, M. D., a native of Clay County, Tenn., was born June
30, 1846, and is a son of Joseph P. and Margaret (Turner) Coffee, of
Tennessee and Virginia, respectively, the former of whom, a farmer, is
still living.  Joel T. received his literary education principally at
Burksville Academy and Georgetown College, Kentucky.  In 1886-87 he
attended the Louisville Medical College, and the following year removed
to Missouri where he resumed teaching, still pursuing his chosen pro-
fession.  He then took a second course of lectures at the St. Louis
Medical College, in 1870-71, and afterward located in Steelville, where
for the past seventeen years he has been a successful practitioner of 
the medical profession.  He is a member of the American Medical Associ-
ation, and also of the Rolla Medical Association.  He is one of the
board of commissioners of the State Lunatic Asylum No. 3, appointed by
the governor, and takes an active part in all enterprises of the town,
being director of the Bank of Steelville and also of the Riverside
Roller Milling Company, as well as president of the Cuba & Steelville
Telephone Company.  In 1878 Dr. Coffee married Miss Rosemond Wallace, 
a native of New Castle, Penn., and of their two children, the younger,
a daughter, is living.  In politics Dr. Coffee sympathizes with the
Democratic party.

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