Biographical Sketch of John H. Coats

Text from Haynes, Nathaniel S. History of the Disciples of Christ in Illinois 1819-1914, Cincinnati: Standard Publishing Company, 1915. Page 499. This online edition © 1997, James L. McMillan.

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A preacher for many years and a long-time elder of the church in Winchester. Military service in Company A, Sixty-eighth, and Company K, Fourteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Captured and several months a prisoner in Andersonville. Treasurer of Scott County for several years, member of the Illinois Legislature in 1882, and Presidential elector in 1896.

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