Biographies:  Clarence C. COE, Barron, Barron Co., WI 

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Clarence C. Coe, of Barron, a prominent member of the legal profession, well
known throughout the county, was born on a farm in Whiteside County, Illinois,
near the City of Sterling, Jan. 4, 1864, son of Jonathan F. and Sarah L.
(Murray) Coe. His parental ancestry in America has been traced back to the 
year 1631, when the first Coe arrived in New England among the early Puritan
settlers. Mr. Coe's mother was of Irish ancestry, and was born in this
country in 1838. Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan F. Coe were among the early settlers 
in Whiteside County, Illinois. Both are now deceased. The subject of this 
sketch spent his first twenty years on his parents' farm in that county, and 
was graduated from the high school at Sterling, Ill., in 1884. In June of the 
same year he came to Barron, Wis., and entered the law office of his cousin, 
Jerome F. Coe, under whose mentorship he began the study of law. With him he 
remained until the fall of 1887, at which time he became a student in the law
department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Graduated from the 
University in June, 1888, in the same year he was admitted to the bar and 
began the practice of his profession in Barron, where he has since remained. 
In the fall of 1888, Mr. Coe was elected district attorney and continued in 
that office for the regular term of two years. In 1892 he became municipal 
judge, a position which he held for eight years. In 1918 he was elected on 
the Republican ticket as a member of the Wisconsin Assembly, in which he 
served one term. In 1920 he was a candidate for renomination, but was 
defeated by John L. Dahl, the Non-partisan candidate, and is now engaged in 
the practice of his profession in Barron. On Sept. 1, 1888, Clarence C. Coe 
was united in marriage with Claudia M. Smith, who was born on a farm at Shell 
Lake, Iowa, May 14, 1866, daughter of Jonathan and Mary G. (Cunningham) Smith,  
and who had come with her parents to Barron, Wis., when 12 years old. Mr. and 
Mrs. Coe are the parents of two children: Lawrence S., born July 22, 1890, 
and Ruth L., born Sept. 18, 1895. Lawrence S. was graduated from the Barron 
High School in 1907 from the University of Wisconsin, with the B. A. degree, 
in 1911, and from the law department of that University, with the LL. B.
degree, in 1913. Since being admitted to the bar he has been engaged in law
practice at Rice Lake, Wis. He married Ethel Harmon and he and his wife are 
the parents of two children, Robert H. and Elizabeth Jane. Ruth Coe was
graduated from the Barron High School in 1913, and from the University of
Minnesota, with the B. A. degree, in 1918. She later graduated as any army 
nurse from the Walter Reed Hospital at Washington, D. C.  Mr. and Mrs. Coe 
and their children are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for a 
number of years he has been a trustee of the church of that denomination in 
Barron. Fraternally, he belongs to Lodge No. 220, F. and A. M., and to Camp 
No. 1268, M. W. A., both of Barron, of the latter of which he is a charter 
member.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pp. 85-86