Coffin's children were Mary E., now of New York City; George G., of New York; Isaac G., of Brooklyn ; Jarvis B., of San Francisco ; and Sarah Ann, Robert A., Frederick J. and Josiah B., deceased.

William Warburton Scrugham, a judge of the Supreme Court for the district including Westchester County and the first lawyer who practiced in the village (now city) of Yonkers, was the son of an Irishman who came to this country from Dublin about the year 1810, and opened a dry-goods store in the lower part of New Y^ork City. William was born in March, 1820, and was dej)rived of both his parents when

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very young. He was entered at a boarding-school in Westchester County while little more than a child, and remained there for many years, after which he was transferred to the grammar school of the Columbia College, in New York, where he continued to stay until 1838. He then began the study of law in the office of Samuel E. Lyons, at White Plains, and was admitted to practice in 1843. In the latter part of that year he removed to Yonkers, then a mere hamlet, the people of which were almost all tenants of Lemuel Wells. In 184() he was elected supervisor of the town of Yonkers, and he held that office for many consecutive years, until he declined to serve any longer. In 1847 he was chosen chairman of the Board of Supervisoi-s. At the first election for district attorney under the