Samuel Bancroft Barlow, and a sister of S. L. M. Barlow, of New York City. On her father's side, Mrs. Coffin is related to Joel Barlow,

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the distinguished author of " The Columbiad," and on her mother's to Major Charles Wadsworth, who, when Sir Edmund Andros demanded the charter of Connecticut, snatched it in the darkness caused by the sudden extinction of the lights, and hastened to conceal it in the famous "Charter Oak."

By this second marriage Mr. Coffin has two children, Magdalen Bentley and Samuel Barlow, who is now a student in Union College. A third child died in infancy.

Previous to his election as surrogate he was elected, in 1859, supervisor of the town of Cortlandt, but declined all offers of re-election. He takes a deep interest in educational matters, and has been for twentyfive years president of the board of trustees of the Peekskill Academy. For many years he has been a member and warden of the Episcopal Church at Peekskill, and a regular attendant upon and devout i participator in its services. j

In the words of one who has known him for many years -- "Though past his sixty-ninth year, Mr. Coffin is still in the vigor of active life. This is no doubt owing to the regularity of his habits and his great fondness for out-door work in field and garden. No one is more systematic in his industry. By it he is enabled to discharge promptly all official duties, to give considerable time to general reading and to work every day with his own hands on his ample grounds situated on the river-bank at Peekskill, which Barry Gray named Sunset Hill. Should a stranger call there in the early morn, or Just before the close of day, in the season for it, and when the weather is propitious, and should he encounter a slender man, in shirt sleeves, with a sharp face, aquiline nose, bright, but fixed and cheery look, iron-gray beard and hair, the whole head General Jackson like, and should he receive frank and cordial reception, enlivened with some [ sportive remark, he may know that he is face to face with Owen T.