Henry was born in Troy, Ohio to John Haskett Coate and Jane Coppock.
Henry was married to Mary C. Williams on Apr. 9, 1871, in Miami Co., Ohio. After a divorce, Henry was married to Virginia Nellie Winans in 1882 in California.
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COATE, Henry R. (b.1851 Troy, OH; d. February 9, 1920 Los Angeles, CA – Cathedral Mausoleum) Coate was educated in public school in Ohio and attended Earlham College and by 1864 he was selling good in his uncle's store in Troy. Coate worked as a traveling salesman and moves to California in 1881. He later joined the firm of Bloom & Murphy, Grant & Company in San Francisco and later became a representative for the J. & P. Coats Thread Company until 1900 when the company merged with the Spool Cotton Company. He moved on and worked with the Levi, Strauss & Company which took him to Los Angeles, and stayed with the company until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake when he left Levi and became an organizer of the Cooper, Coate & Casey Company which soon became the largest wholesale dry good company in Southern California. The company had holdings in Latin America and through the southwest U.S. The CC&CC sold floor coverings, ladies' and men's furnishings, dry goods and notions. Coate married the former Virginia Winans (b. 1859; d. 1935) who is interred next to him. Winans was a California native and educated in Los Angeles.
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Henry was married to Mary C. Williams on Apr. 9, 1871, in Miami Co., Ohio. After a divorce, Henry was married to Virginia Nellie Winans in 1882 in California.
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COATE, Henry R. (b.1851 Troy, OH; d. February 9, 1920 Los Angeles, CA – Cathedral Mausoleum) Coate was educated in public school in Ohio and attended Earlham College and by 1864 he was selling good in his uncle's store in Troy. Coate worked as a traveling salesman and moves to California in 1881. He later joined the firm of Bloom & Murphy, Grant & Company in San Francisco and later became a representative for the J. & P. Coats Thread Company until 1900 when the company merged with the Spool Cotton Company. He moved on and worked with the Levi, Strauss & Company which took him to Los Angeles, and stayed with the company until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake when he left Levi and became an organizer of the Cooper, Coate & Casey Company which soon became the largest wholesale dry good company in Southern California. The company had holdings in Latin America and through the southwest U.S. The CC&CC sold floor coverings, ladies' and men's furnishings, dry goods and notions. Coate married the former Virginia Winans (b. 1859; d. 1935) who is interred next to him. Winans was a California native and educated in Los Angeles.
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Henry was born in Troy, Ohio to John Haskett Coate and Jane Coppock.
Henry was married to Mary C. Williams on Apr. 9, 1871, in Miami Co., Ohio. After a divorce, Henry was married to Virginia Nellie Winans in 1882 in California.
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COATE, Henry R. (b.1851 Troy, OH; d. February 9, 1920 Los Angeles, CA – Cathedral Mausoleum) Coate was educated in public school in Ohio and attended Earlham College and by 1864 he was selling good in his uncle's store in Troy. Coate worked as a traveling salesman and moves to California in 1881. He later joined the firm of Bloom & Murphy, Grant & Company in San Francisco and later became a representative for the J. & P. Coats Thread Company until 1900 when the company merged with the Spool Cotton Company. He moved on and worked with the Levi, Strauss & Company which took him to Los Angeles, and stayed with the company until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake when he left Levi and became an organizer of the Cooper, Coate & Casey Company which soon became the largest wholesale dry good company in Southern California. The company had holdings in Latin America and through the southwest U.S. The CC&CC sold floor coverings, ladies' and men's furnishings, dry goods and notions. Coate married the former Virginia Winans (b. 1859; d. 1935) who is interred next to him. Winans was a California native and educated in Los Angeles.
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Henry was married to Mary C. Williams on Apr. 9, 1871, in Miami Co., Ohio. After a divorce, Henry was married to Virginia Nellie Winans in 1882 in California.
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COATE, Henry R. (b.1851 Troy, OH; d. February 9, 1920 Los Angeles, CA – Cathedral Mausoleum) Coate was educated in public school in Ohio and attended Earlham College and by 1864 he was selling good in his uncle's store in Troy. Coate worked as a traveling salesman and moves to California in 1881. He later joined the firm of Bloom & Murphy, Grant & Company in San Francisco and later became a representative for the J. & P. Coats Thread Company until 1900 when the company merged with the Spool Cotton Company. He moved on and worked with the Levi, Strauss & Company which took him to Los Angeles, and stayed with the company until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake when he left Levi and became an organizer of the Cooper, Coate & Casey Company which soon became the largest wholesale dry good company in Southern California. The company had holdings in Latin America and through the southwest U.S. The CC&CC sold floor coverings, ladies' and men's furnishings, dry goods and notions. Coate married the former Virginia Winans (b. 1859; d. 1935) who is interred next to him. Winans was a California native and educated in Los Angeles.
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