Katharine Ellis Coman

Her parents were Levi Parsons Coman & Martha Seymour.

For 25 years, she lived with Katharine Lee Bates (Author of "America the Beautiful"), and died at her home.

Articles on her death: "New York Times", January 12, 1915 - Page 9 / "The Newark Advocate" - Newark, Ohio - Jan. 12, 1915 - Page 6, "Obituary"

"Burial will be made in Cedar Hill." (Page 5, "Obituary" - "The Newark Advocate" - Newark, Ohio - January 15, 1915 - Photocopy)

She was cremated at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 13, 1915. (Cemetery Records)

NOTE: On Page 533, of the book "Where They're Buried", by Thomas E. Spencer, c 1998, her year of death is given as 1917 and her burial-place as Mount Auburn Cemetery, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Famous author on economic subjects. Among her books are:

 -  "The Negro as a Peasant Farmer", 1904

 -  "The Industrial History of the United States", 1905

 -  "Economic Beginnings of the Far West", 1912

 -  "Unemployment Insurance: A Summary of European Systems", 1915* Reference: [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40633821/katharine-ellis-coman Find A Grave Memorial] - [https://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783 SmartCopy]: ''Oct 3 2018, 2:13:49 UTC''

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Katharine Coman (23 November 1857 – 11 January 1915) was a social activist and distinguished economist. She specialized in teaching about the development of the American West. Wellesley College named a professorship in her honor.

She was born to Levi Parsons Coman and Martha Seymour in Newark, Ohio, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1880.

She was professor of history (1883-1900), then chaired the Economics Department, and was dean of Wellesley College. Coman lived in a Boston marriage with fellow professor Katharine Lee Bates (author of "America the Beautiful") for 25 years, from 1890 until Coman's death from breast cancer in 1915.

Author

The Growth of the English Nation (1894)

History of England (1899)
A Short history of England with Elizabeth Kendall
English History Told by English Poets (1902) (ISBN 0-8369-6097-1) with Katharine Lee Bates
Industrial History of the United States (1905; revised 1911)
Economic Beginnings of the Far West (1912)