Jesse Milton Coburn

Jesse Milton Coburn
20th Mayor of South Norwalk, Connecticut
In office
1897 – 1898[1]
Preceded by Charles G. Bohannan
Succeeded by Charles G. Bohannan
Personal details
Born (1853-03-27)March 27, 1853[2][3][4]
Pittsfield, New Hampshire[3][4]
Died August 13, 1923(1923-08-13) (aged 70)[4]
Bridgeport Hospital
Bridgeport, Connecticut[4]
Resting place Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport[4]
Political party

Prohibitionist[3]

Republican[2][4]
Spouse(s) Abbie M. Cutler[3] (m. August 4th, 1879)[2][4]
Children two sons,[3] Harrie Cutter Coburn (b. 1883), Aaron Cutter Coburn (b. 1885)[2]
Residence

Brooklyn, Connecticut[2]

South Norwalk, Connecticut[2]
Alma mater Pembroke Academy[2][3]
Hahnemann Medical College[2]
Boston University (M.D., 1874)[2][3]
Occupation physician[2][3][4]
Religion Congregationalist,[4][5] Baptist[3]

Jesse Milton Coburn (1853–1923) was a one-term Republican mayor of South Norwalk, Connecticut, from 1897 to 1898.

Early life and family

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.[2] As a youth, he worked finishing leather in a currying shop.[2] He attended high school in Manchester, New Hampshire, and at the Pembroke Academy in Pembroke, New Hampshire. He then worked in a doctor's 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.[2]

He opened his practice in Brooklyn, Connecticut.[2] He was soon made surgeon to the Boston and Albany Railroad.[2]

In 1893 he moved to South Norwalk and became the surgeon for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, as well as city physician of South Norwalk.[2]

Political career

In 1899, he was elected mayor of South Norwalk as a Republican.[2]

Associations

References

  1. ↑ List of mayors of Norwalk, Connecticut
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Men of Mark
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Illustrated Popular Biographies of Connecticut
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Political Graveyard
  5. ↑ U.S Congregationalist Politicians
Preceded by
Charles G. Bohannan		 Mayor of South Norwalk, Connecticut
1897–-1898 		Succeeded by
Charles G. Bohannan
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