The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-13
Department Commander Of G. A.
r., Widely Known in KenOsha,
Died on Wednesday
VETERANS MOURN DEAD CHEF
Death of Well Known Grand Army
Leader Causes Great Grief Among
i the Veterans Of Civil
War in Kenosha

Department Commander E. d. Coe of
the Wisconsin G. A. r., for forty years
editor and chief owner of the White
water Register, ten years pension agent
Of the Milwaukee pension district, pres
idcnt of the Wisconsin Editorial .asso-
ciaton for several years, and former
chairman of the Republican state cen
trail committee, is dead.
The end came Wednesday at the
family residence in Whitewater Al
thought not unexpected Mr.. Goes death
nevertheless was shock to his family
and many friends, as it will be to the
Grand Army Of the Republic in Wis
consin, of which he was the head.
Mr.. Coe would have been SO years
of age within a few months He was
a native of Wisconsin, his birthplace be
ing ia Jefferson county and he spent his
entire life in Wisconsin. He was a
Student in the University of Wiscon-
sin when the war broke out and leav-
ing school he became member of the
First Wisconsin cavalry, with which he
served until compelled to retire on
account of serious illness
Mr.. Coe first came to Kenosha as one
of the members of the First Wisconsin
cavalry and while that regiment re-
manned in camp Mr.. Coe formed friend
ships in Kenosha which continued up
to the time of his death. He had often
been in Kenosha to attend Grand Army
functions and it was the Kenosha Post
of the Grand Army that first brought
him out as a candidate for department
commander a year ago. The flag of
the Kenosha Post is at half mast today
and expressions ofgrief were heard from
many of the wen known veterans in
the city. A number of the members of
Fred s. Lowell Post will go to White
water on Friday afternoon TO attend
the funeral Of their dead commander
The funeral will be held from the late
residence and interment will be in the
family plat at Whitewater.
After the war he took up editorial
work, becoming proprietor and editor
of the Register forty years ago. Elev-
en- years ago he was appointed pension
agent and went to Milwaukee to take
up that work, position which he filed
for ten years-two and one-half terms
with credit and fidelity.
He was elected last year department
commander of the G. A. r. in Wiscon-
sin. His serious illness dates from two
weeks ago, when he returned from a
trip to various G. A. r.. Posts in the
state.
Mr., Coe is survived by his wife, three
sons, Robert, Ellsworth and Dwight,
and one daughter Mrs Frank Goodhue,
wife of Postmaster Frank Goodhue of
Whitewater.
Col j. A. Watrous, U. S. A. retired,
a lifelong friend, army comrade and
predecessor as department commander
of commander Coe, had this to say of
him:
"Comrade Coe was one of the best
and sincerest of men; man of more
than ordinary attainmeuts; sincere and
devoted to every cause in which he was
enlisted. AS boy in Jefferson county
he was energetic and ambitious; as a
student at the University Of WISCONSIN
he was apt and student of promise,
but when the call came for men to go
out and fight to preserve the Union,
Student Coe, then mere boy, gave up
his university work, much as he loved
that and joining the old First Wiscon-
sin cavalry, went proudly to the front
and served his country as faithfully
and devotedly as he did everything he
had undertaken, AS department com
mander of the G. A. r. he was devoted
to the best interests of the organiza-
tion and when his fatal illness finally
overlook him it found him out in the
state looking after the interests of vari-
GUS posts and arranging for the coming
Eau Claire encampment, which will now
be saddened gathering of the boys
of the association under his guiding
leadership.
Col A. G. Weissert, past contender
.n-chief Of the Grand Army Of the
United States, and past department
commander in Wisconsin said:
MIR Coe was great in everything
that makes good citizen. He was
kiGdhearted, generous, genial and hon.
est, and he will be very greatly missed
by all who knew him. am exceeding
" sorry to Lesr of his death 1 had
hoped to hear soon Of his recovery, al
though we knew that his condition was
in recent months regarded as being
serious.
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