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Coffin, Charles A (Albert)

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Coffin, Charles A (Albert) (1844-1926)

US manufacturer. Coffin was president of General Electric Company 1892-1913 The company was a merger of the Thomas-Houston Company in Lynn, Massachusetts, and the Edison Electric Company New York. From 1913 to 1922 he chaired the board. Under his leadership the company grew to a million-dollar-a-day business.

He was born in Somerset County, Maine. A shoe manufacturer in Lynn, Massachusetts During World War I he created the War Relief Clearing House, later merged with the Red Cross.



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