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Elisha Coan Collection,
1831-1955
0.25
linear feet.
Catalog Number:
M36
Series List:
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Agency History / Biographical Note:
Elisha Coan (1843-1896), a native of Exeter, Maine, served in the Civil War in
the 20th Maine Infantry Regiment (1862) and with the U.S. Army Signal Corps
(1863-1865). After the war he returned to Maine and received his M.D. from
the Medical School of Maine in 1870. He practiced medicine in Bradford
(1870-1875), Garland (1875-1887), and Auburn, Maine (1887-1896), and served a
year in the Maine Legislature (1885-1886). Coan married Mary Abbie Swett in
1871; they had two sons and two daughters. He died in Auburn in 1896.
Scope and Content:
Letters, documents, articles, clippings, photographs and other material
(1831-1955, n.d.) relating to Coan and his career. Most of the collection
relates to the Civil War, including a few Civil War era letters from Coan to
his family, articles and reminiscences of the war years, and separate
accounts of the action at Gettysburg written by Elisha Coan and Col. William
C. Oates of the 15th Alabama. The collection also includes three letters and
an article by Marion Coan, Elisha's daughter.
Cite as:
Elisha Coan Collection, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections
& Archives, Bowdoin College Library.
Access Restrictions:
None.
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