San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 11/1/2009
C.W. COFFMAN
A worthy representative of Handy County, Va., who became a well-known pioneer of the Prairie state, is C.W. Coffman, who was born in Henderson County, Illinois, on September 24, 1863, and there reared and educated in one of the common schools. His father was Jesse Walter Coffman, who married Miss Margaret Switzer. Four children were granted the sturdy couple. Isaac, William Henry and John are deceased; and there is left only the subject of this story.
Mrs. Coffman died when the lad was eleven years of age, and his father married a second time. He had three ranches, one of 122 acres, and two of eighty acres each; and C.W. remained at home with his father until he was twenty-five years of age. In the county where he was born, he married, on March 8, 1896, Miss Atlanta Jane Hazen, the daughter of Joseph and Emeline Hazen, and a member of a family of experienced farmer folks. She was born in Nemaha County, Kansas, and her father was a native of Ohio, who moved to Kansas and took up government land when she was one and one-half years old. Then, after awhile, they removed to Henderson County, Illinois, and there Mrs. Coffman was reared and educated in the public schools. They have had nine children in the Hazen family, but only three are living today, and these are Henry, Mrs. Atlanta Coffman, and Verna, Mrs. Biasi.
Mr. and Mrs. Coffman followed farming in the vicinity of the old home place until some seven years after their marriage, and then they moved to Coffee County, Kansas, where they bought a farm and ranched until they came to California, in 1912. They were fortunate in settling at once in San Joaquin County, where Mr. Coffman first purchased a vineyard of twenty acres, which he sold in 1918, when he bought the present ranch of ten acres on the Cherokee Lane Road, about two miles southeast of Acampo, and one mile south of the Houston School. The Coffmans have been here on this ranch since 1918, and they devote it partly to vineyard, and partly to orchard purposes. They have four children.
A stanch Democrat, Mr. Coffman is nevertheless a broad-minded "booster" of the best things locally, regardless of partisanship. When he was a resident of Kansas, he was a school trustee, and he has always been interested in the problems of public education. He was long an Odd Fellow, and attended the lodges, until deafness prevented him from enjoying the occasions, when, to the regret of many, he withdrew. Mrs. Coffman and the daughter, Iva, are members of the Rebekahs.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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