Jesse Milton Coburn

Jesse Milton Coburn was a oneterm Republican mayor of South Norwalk, Connecticut, from 1897 to 1898.

Coburn was born and raised in Pittsfield, New Hampshire. He was the son of clergyman Jesse Milton Coburn and Almira Morse Coburn, who died at his birth. As a youth, he worked finishing leather in a currying shop. He attended high school in Manchester, New Hampshire, and at the Pembroke Academy in Pembroke, New Hampshire. He then worked in a doctors office, and later studied at the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. He earned his medical degree at the Medical School of Boston University, where he was graduated in 1874.

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