Coffin, Charles E
manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, was born July 18, 1841, in Boston, Mass. He purchased tract of land in Muirkirk, Md., on which he found iron ore. In 1864 he took charge of the iron works, which were built by the Ellicotts in 1847.
In 1884 he was elected to the house of delegates of Maryland; and in 1890 was elected a member of the Maryland state senate, serving four years. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a republican.