Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, allother inconsistencies are as in the original. Author's spelling hasbeen maintained.

Charles Carleton Coffin

C. Carleton Coffin.

Charles Carleton Coffin

War Correspondent, Traveller,
Author, and Statesman

By

William Elliot Griffis, D. D.

Author of "Matthew Calbraith Perry," "Sir William Johnson,"
and"Townsend Harris, First American Envoy to Japan."

Boston
Estes and Lauriat
1898

Copyright, 1898 By Sallie R. Coffin

Colonial Press.
Electrotyped and Printed by
C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, U. S. A.

Dedicated to
The Generation of Young People whom
Carleton
Helped to Educate for American Citizenship.

Preface

Among the million or more readers of "Carleton's" books, are some whowill enjoy knowing about him as boy and man. Between condensedautobiography and biography, we have here, let us hope, a binocular,which will yield to the eye a stereoscopic picture, having thesolidity and relief of ordinary vision.

Two facts may make one preface. Mrs. Coffin requested me, in a letterdated May 10, 1896, to outline the life and work of her late husband."Because," said she, "you write in a condensed way that would pleaseMr. Coffin, and because you could see into Mr. Coffin's motives oflife."

With such leisure and ability as one in the active pastorate, whopreaches steadily to "town and gown" in a university town, couldcommand, I have cut a cameo rather than chiselled a bust or statue.Many good friends, especially Dr. Edmund Carleton and Rev. H. A.Bridgman, have helped me. To them I herewith return warm thanks.

W. E. G.

Ithaca, N. Y., May 24, 1898.

Contents

• CHAPTERPAGE
  
• I.Introductory Chapter.13
  
• II.Of Revolutionary Sires.19
  
• III.The Days of Homespun.30
  
• IV.Politics, Travel, and Business.41
  
• V.Electricity and Journalism.55
  
• VI....