Robert
Adams
Coker
Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Son of John Coker
and Susanna (Little) Coker
Brother of
Eunice Adams [half], John Phillips Coker, Susan Adelaine (Coker) Carr and Catherine Greenleaf (Coker) Ordway
[spouse(s) unknown]
Died
at about age 26
in West Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 18 Feb 2016
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Biography
- Robert Adams Coker of West Newbury, Massachusetts, was born in 1807 and died in 1833, only eighteen months after graduation from Harvard College. His class of 1831 included a handful of prominent mid-nineteenth century names, among them Wendell Phillips, the anti-slavery orator. His major field of study was mathematics, which he taught in two schools after college: an academy in Francestown, New Hampshire, in 1831-1832, and the Highland School in Cold Springs, New York (near West Point), from July 1832 to January 1833. Coker then went home to West Newbury, and died there of consumption in March. His abiding love of mathematics helped him through the rough days when he was feeling poorly, although he did not know at that time that he was suffering from tuberculosis. [1]
Sources
- Footnotes:
- ↑ SNAC - Profile of Robert Adams Coker (1807 - 1833)
- Source Citations:
- Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 - West Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts Death Records - Robert Adams Coker died 1833 at age 26
- SNAC - Profile of Robert Adams Coker (1807 - 1833)
- Story of Robert Adams Coker - Love of mathematics and desire to travel
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