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Coffin, Robert Barry

journalist, author, was born July 21, 1826, in Hudson, N. Y. He was a New York journalist whose books were popular at one time but are now nearly forgotten. Their humor is somewhat forced, and the style has no very marked merits. He is the author of Matrimonial Infelicities; Who Is the Heir? Out of Town, a Rural Episode; Cakes and Ale at Woodbine; Castles in the Air; Left in the Lurch; and The Home of Cooper. He died June 10, 1886, in Fordham, N. Y.