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Coffin, Joshua, 1792-1864We have 1 book for this author.Joshua Coffin (October 12, 1792 – June 24, 1864) was an American antiquary and abolitionist. Coffin was born in Newbury, Massachusetts. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1817, and taught for many years, numbering among his pupils the poet John Greenleaf Whittier, who addressed to him a poem entitled "To My Old School-Master." Coffin was ardent in the cause of emancipation, and was one of the founders of the New-England anti-slavery society in 1832, being its first recording secretary. He published The History of Ancient Newbury (Boston, 1845), genealogies of the Woodman, Little, and Toppan families, and magazine articles. References
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