Biography of Charles Coffrin, page 979.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Charles Coffrin, carpenter and joiner, Butler, Ind., was born in Whitley, 
Canada, thirty miles east of Toronto, Dec. 8, 1839, a son of Robert Coffrin, 
a native of Vermont, who moved to Canada in 1836 and died there in 1849.  
His mother is now the widow of Abraham Scott, and lives in Butler. In 1859 
Mr. Coffrin went to Dodge County, Wis., and worked at his trade till 
February, 1862, when he enlisted in Company E, Nineteenth Wisconsin 
Infantry, and served three years, participating in the battles of Fortress 
Monroe, siege of Yorktown, where the regiment met with a heavy loss, 
Suffolk, Dreary Bluff and others.  His brother Amasa was in the same 
regiment and was killed at Dreary Bluff.  After his return from the war Mr. 
Coffrin came to Indiana, in June, 1865, and worked for W.W. Egnew, of 
Butler, two years making pumps; then worked at his trade a few years, when 
he bought a farm near Butler.  In 1883 he returned to Butler, and has since 
paid the greater part of his attention to horses.  He has one horse, 
Framers’ Pride, which is four years old and weighs 1,700 pounds; another, 
Canadian Jack, is five years old and weighs 1,750 pounds.  Mr. Coffrin was 
married June 11, 1861, to Mary Howard, daughter of Morris Howard, of 
Steuben County, Ind.  To them have been born two children, but one of whom 
is living---Evalena.  She is a well-known teacher of Franklin and 
Wilmington townships, and is a graduate of Butler High School.

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