# Talk:Levi Coffin

This article could probably benefit from a sentence or more about Coffin's relation to Lucretia Coffin Mott and, less so, to her sister Martha Coffin Wright. Binksternet (talk) 21:40, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Ditto; I had just come here to say that.--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 15:51, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
I don't see any mention of Levi in their articles, but they are from the same origin, Nantucket. Are they cousins? I have two books I have been working with to expand the article on, but I have got stalled out this week. —Charles Edward (Talk | Contribs)
I searched google books and came up with... they are not very closely related.
Here's a letter from Lucretia that names Levi as her cousin.
This book says that historians suppose them not closely related.
This biography of Lucretia Mott only offers a limited online view, but it mentions Levi Coffin in a paragraph that apparently talks about Coffin cousins. Binksternet (talk) 17:34, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Judging by the time frame involved, they could potentially be first cousins, but probably second or third cousins, sharing the same great grandfather. Just a guess though. They are most likely related since she was born in Nantucket, and Levi's parents were also from Nantucket. Nantucket is not a very big place. —Charles Edward (Talk | Contribs) 18:59, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Is he related to the Sloane Coffin family of minsters and social activists? The similarity in careers and political outlook, along with the name, certainly raises the possibility. Dvd Avins (talk) 18:47, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

is it the drawing that is c. 1850 or the engraving? Kingturtle (talk) 17:12, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

The original engraving was c. 1850. I have clarified it. —Charles Edward (Talk | Contribs) 17:15, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

I began editing this yesterday in a fast food restaurant while waiting for a rainstorm to end, annoyed at the passive constructions. However, as I returned to it this morning waiting for a library to open, I couldn't find wikilinks I had planned to add. In short, I believe he settled in Wayne County, Indiana because it was a confluence of several trails, north/south as well as east/west. I added a wikilink to the most important North/South trail of the day, the National Road. I also noticed another east-west trail from New Albany, though I did not add a link because I wasn't very familiar with it. I did notice that the Underground Railroad in Indiana category also has an entry for Madison, Indiana to the south. I also know that there was a historic Native American trail between Greenfield, Ohio (Highland County, Ohio being  southeast of Wayne County, Indiana) and Fort Wayne, Indiana, which might have gone through Wayne County. Unfortunately, the historic Indiana trails category is of east-west trails, not north/south, despite historic trading routes across the Appalachian mountains from the Great Lakes.Jweaver28 (talk) 13:23, 6 June 2019 (UTC)