Martin L. Coffland was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, February 11, 1851, being the youngest son of Launcelot and Eliza Coffland. Mr. Coffland spent his early life farming in Jefferson and Belmont counties, Ohio. In the year 1868 he came west, and worked upon a farm most of the time for ten years in Warren county, when he settled in Mercer county, where he now resides, five miles east of Aledo.

He was married February 21, 1872, to Miss Phcebe J. Finley, of Warren county, and has three children: Mary Grace, aged seven years, Rose Anna, aged two, and Orion Finley. born April 10, 1882. Mr. Coffland and wife are members of the United Presbyterian church of Aledo. Mr. Coffland is a republican.

 

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