3647 | i. | Alexander Brainard Coffey was born on 14 April 1854 in Paola, Miami Co., KS. He lived with his maternal grandmother Ann Fowler in Boone Co., MO on 18 July 1870. He lived with his brother Robert in Boone Co., MO on 25 June 1880. Alexander was the chairman of philosophy and education at Washington State University in Yakima, Washington Terriroty on 15 September 1898. The Yakima Herald, Yakima, Washington Terriroty, Sep. 15, 1898, Vol. X, No. 35, Page 1 Pedagogues in Session Institute Being Held for the Edification of Teachers The Attendance Not Large
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"The sixteenth annual session of the Yakima County Teachers' Institute convened at the high school building Monday, September 12, with County Superintendent Plumb as president and Messrs. George E. St. John, A. B. Coffey and Mrs. Hassell as instructors. "...Prof. Coffey holds the chair of philosophy and education at the State university. He is a man of keen intellect, a systematic thinker and in line with the western educational spirit. To the teachers he lectured on 'Elementary English and the Dynamics of a Purpose.' On Monday evening helectured to a large audience at the Congregational church on the subject, 'Young America.'" He lived with a Maloney family in Seattle, King Co., WA on 7 November 1900.4161 Alexander died at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA on 29 October 1914 and was buried at Knob Noster Cemetery in Knob Noster, Johnson Co., MO in November 1914 .4162 Alexander Brainard Coffey who was dean of School of Pedagogy (teaching) at the University of Washington in 1902. According to his bio found in the university year book for 1902, he was a student at Hasting College of Law, 1894-95; B.S.D from Missouri State Normal School in 1899; teacher and principal in MO schools from 1876-82 and teacher, principal and county superintendent of schools in CA from 1882-1894. He became professor of Pedagogy and Dean of that school at the Univ. of Washington in 1898. In 1905 he was a resident lecturer in education at the University of Wisconsin but, he was not included in the 1905 Wisconsin State Census of that year. At the time of his death, Dr. Coffey was dean of the Teachers' College at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. He never married. |