Lewis Eugene Coe

Lewis Eugene Coe, aged 74, was born on Monday, February 23, 1852, in Livonia, Livingston County, New York, and died in the same location on Tuesday, April 12, 1926. He was a prosperous farmer and prominent citizen of a town nine miles from Geneseo. Lewis Eugene lived his entire life on the farm initially bought by his grandfather, Lewis Coe. 

Lewis E. Coe was the son of Sheldon Calhoun Coe and Betsey Janette Stow. He attended the Geneseo Normal School and, at the age of 18, became a founding member of the Delphic Society in 1871. 

Lewis was later an assessor and a school and church trustee in Livonia. In 1877, Lewis Eugene Coe married Clara Ella Knowles, and they adopted two daughters.

Coe was a descendant of Puritan English settler Robert Coe, founder of five towns in Connecticut and New York who is considered the founder of the Coe Family in America. Notable descendants of Robert Coe include former U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.