tailieunhanh - Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman

The Coffins of America are descended from Tristram Coffin of England and Nantucket. Charles Carleton Coffin was born of Revolutionary sires. He first saw light in the southwest corner room of a house which stood on Water Street, in Boscawen, N. H., which his grandfather, Captain Peter Coffin, had built in 1766. This ancestor, "an energetic, plucky, good-natured, genial man," married Rebecca Hazeltine, of Chester, N. H. When the frame of the house was up and the corner room partitioned off, the bride and groom began housekeeping. Her wedding outfit was a feather bed, a frying-pan, a dinner-pot, and some wooden and pewter plates. She was. | 1 CHAPTER Page CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XX. CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXII. CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTER XXIV. CHAPTER XXV. CHAPTER XXVI. CHAPTER XXVII. CHAPTER XXVIII. CHAPTER XXIX. Carleton Coffin by William Elliot Griffis 2 Carleton Coffin by William Elliot Griffis Project Gutenberg s Charles Carleton Coffin by William Elliot Griffis This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent Traveller Author and Statesman Author William Elliot Griffis Release Date August 4 2007 EBook 22238 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN Produced by Patricia Peters Christine P. Travers and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Transcriber s note Obvious printer s errors have been corrected all other inconsistencies are as in the original. Author s spelling has been maintained. Illustration C. Carleton Coffin. Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent Traveller Author and Statesman By William Elliot Griffis D. D. Author of Matthew Calbraith Perry Sir William Johnson and Townsend Harris First American Envoy to Japan. Boston Estes and Lauriat 1898 Copyright 1898 By Sallie R. Coffin Colonial Press. Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds Co. Boston U. S. A. Dedicated to The Generation of Young People whom Carleton Helped to Educate for American Citizenship. Preface Among the million or more readers of Carleton s books are some who will enjoy knowing about him as boy and man. Between condensed autobiography and biography we have here let us hope a .