Ezra Frank Coe - mid 1880s - page 10 of Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe's photograph album
The ninth photograph is Ezra Frank Coe (1853-1942), brother of Elizabeth Ann Coe.
Ezra Frank Coe was born 26 December 1853 in Pavilion, Genesee County, New York to Albert Coe (1827-1907) and Deborah Prentice (1833-1910).
Sarah Frances Ward was born on 6 June 1856 in Pavilion, Genesee County, New York to Charles Kendall Ward (1819-1898) and Laura Caroline Davenport (1822-1876).
He married Sarah France Ward (1856 - 1942) daughter of Charles Kendall Ward (1819-1898) and Laura Caroline Davenport (1822-1876) on November 7, 1883 in LeRoy, Genesee County.
Ezra and Sarah moved frequently during the early years of their marriage. In 1885, the Iowa state census has them living in Perry, Dallas County, Iowa. Just over a year later in December 1886, their daughter Clara Evelyn Coe (1886-1972) was born in Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas. In January 1890, their son Charles Albert Coe (1890-1978) was born in Denver, Adams County, Colorado. By 1892, they were living in Wichita, Sedgewick County, Kansas, where Ezra was employed as a traveling salesman for the Buckeye Machine Company. By 1900. they had returned to Genesee County, living in Le Roy, right next door to Ezra's parents, Albert and Deborah Coe. Their younger daughter, Laura Frances Coe (1901-1964) was born in Le Roy in February 1901.
For about 25 years, the family remained in the Genesee County area. In 1920, they were living in Batavia. In about 1926, Ezra and Sarah relocated to Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, where they lived for the remainder of their lives. They did return to the Genesee County area regularly, spending several months there each year.
Ezra and Sarah both died in January 1942 in Tampa - Ezra died on January 6, Sarah followed on January 7.
My guess is the photo was taken in between 1884 - 1886, the years Ezra Frank Coe lived in Iowa.
The style of the card - type of photograph, type of cardstock, border, etc indicate the photograph could have been taken anytime between 1870 and 1900.
The imprint on the back of the photograph indicates it was taken at Kilborn & Co., Photographers, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Wilbur Franklin Kilborn, and then his nephew, William Kilborn ran a photography studio in Cedar Rapids from as early as 1870 through the 1890s. Their business was listed in city directories in 1884 and 1886 as Kilborn, W.F. & Co.
Ezra Coe was living in Pavillion, Genesee County, New York as late as November 1883 when he married. The 1885 Iowa census places him in Perry, Dallas County in 1885. The family was living in Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas by December 1886.
Without more information about when exactly the Coe family lived in Iowa, and when they might of visited Cedar Rapids where the photograph was taken, it probably can't be dated more precisely than mid-1880s.
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