Category: History
Chinese Love Story Pictured on New Bedroom Furniture
Jamestown Post-Journal – March 20, 1948 A Chinese love story in lacquer, enacted on novel bedroom furniture, will be a special exhibit by Union-National Furniture Company at the Jamestown Exposition next month when 2,500 buyers will converge here. The first sets of more than 250, now being made, are completed.…
History of The Coffin Family
Learn about the Coffin family’s ties to Nantucket and influences of the seascape paintings.
Sunday Tea with Mrs Merrill Coffin
Mrs. Merrill Everett Coffin will open her home, 333 Fairmount Avenue, tomorrow from 5 to 7 P. M. when Delta Gamma chapter of the Beta Sigma Phi sorority will honor their mothers at a mother and daughter tea. Chairman of the affair will be Mrs. James Wells, assisted by Mrs…
Coffin-Collins April Wedding
Coffin-Collins April Wedding Held Sunday at Bethel Church An April afternoon Church wedding took place Sunday, when Lois Virginia Collins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Collins, 69 Stewart Avenue, became the bride of Merrill Everett Coffin, son of Mr. and Mrs. George D. Coffin, 36- West 22nd Street. Rev. Lawrence F. Nordstrom officiated at 3 o’clock at…
Wedding Anniversary
1945 Photograph of Merrill & his wife Lois on their honeymoon at Niagara Falls. They were married for over 60 years. Today would have been their 68th wedding anniversary.
1983 Artifacts Article
Chautauqua County Artists Merrill Coffin Merrill (Pete) Coffin is one of the area’s most respected artists. Respected for the quality of his work, Mr. Coffin has gained a way of life, a theory of painting, and what seems to be a certain contentment with his art. I visited recently with Mr. Coffin…
Howard Atkins
On October 24, 2012 I was privileged enough to be able to sit down with Howard Atkins, who at the age of 13 in 1944 started working for a new company called Decoralac. His role with the company was to haul the furniture on the night shift when work was…