Owen Vincent Coffin

Owen Vincent Coffin was an American politician and the 56th Governor of Connecticut from 1894 to 1897.

Coffin was born in Mansfield, New York, son of Alexander H. Coffin and Jane Coffin. He studied at Cortland Academy and the Charlottesville Seminary. At seventeen he went to New York to be a salesman for a mercantile house, and two years later, in 1855, he became the New York representative of a prominent Connecticut manufacturing firm.

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