Coats, Ralph J.

Born: 1817-05-03 Wyoming County, New York

Died: 1878-01-24 Springfield, Illinois

Flourished: 1840-1878 Springfield, Illinois

Coats moved to Springfield, Illinois, in October of 1840. In 1845, he married Amanda N. Wood in Michigan, and they returned to Springfield where they had two children, and Coats was in the grocery business. He served as a Springfield alderman several times in the 1850s and 1860s.

John Carroll Power and S. A. Power, History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois (Springfield, IL: Edwin A. Wilson, 1876), 209; Illinois Daily Journal (Springfield), 25 January 1878, 4:5.