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George Oliver Coffin,
one of the most successful physicians of Kansas City, was born at
Danielsville, Pa., August 4, 1858. Dr. Coffin's early education
was in the common schools of his native town and at Williamsburg
Academy. He was graduated from Penn Medical College at
Philadelphia in 1879. He practiced at Frankfort, Kas., El Paso,
Tex., and Silver Cliff, Colo., locating in Kansas City in the fall of
1887. In May, 1894, he was appointed house surgeon
at the City Hospital, and in 1895 became City Physician, remaining in
that office until 1901. Dr. Coffin was elected to the chair of
surgery in the Medico-Chirurgical College, and was Dean of the
Faculty. He is also Professor of Clinical Surgery in the Woman's
Medical College of Kansas City. He is on the medical staff of
half a dozen railroads and hospitals, is a member of the Kansas City
Academy of Medicine, the Jackson County Medical Society, the
Missouri State Medical Society, and the American Medical
Association. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a noble of the
Mystic Shrine, a K. P., and an Elk.
In 1883 Dr. Coffin married
Miss Minnie A. Deane, of Frankfort, Kas. Their children are
Deane Oliver and Bertha M. Coffin. Edward Carl Coffin is a son
by a former marriage.
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