In 1821, Coffin and his cousin started a Sunday School to teach slaves to read the Bible.

Shortly before his death, Coffin founded Faithful Security, a coalition for people of faith committed to working for a world free of nuclear weapons.

Coffin took up the task and took a temporary leave from Yale, working to develop a rigorous training program modeled on Outward Bound and supervising the building of a training camp in Puerto Rico.

Various sources note the spirit of campus activism that has existed at Yale since the 1960s, and the intellectual influence of Reverend William Sloane Coffin on many of the future candidates.

In 1840, at the urging of Garrison and Wendell Phillips, Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton traveled with their husbands and a dozen other American male and female abolitionists to London for the first World's Anti-Slavery Convention, with the expectation that a motion put forward by Phillips to include women's participation in the convention would be controversial.

They also visited Lucretia's sister Martha Coffin Wright in Auburn, NY, where Mott also preached to prisoners at the Auburn State Penitentiary.

After Quaker service on Sunday July 9, 1848, Lucretia Coffin Mott joined Mary Ann M ' Clintock, Martha Coffin Wright ( Mott's witty sister, several months pregnant ), Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Jane Hunt for tea at the Hunt home in Waterloo.

The myth of Set's conflict with Horus, Osiris, and Isis appears in many Egyptian sources, including the Pyramid Texts, the Coffin Texts, the Shabaka Stone, inscriptions on the walls of the temple of Horus at Edfu, and various papyrus sources.

The fire of 1984 affected the organ but not irreparably ; the damage hastened the time for a major restoration, which was begun in 1991 and finished two years later by Principal Pipe Organs of York, under the direction of their founder, Geoffrey Coffin, who had at one time been assistant organist at the Minster.

He also received a Charles A. Coffin Foundation Fellowship from the General Electric Company, which enabled him to attend graduate school at Princeton University, where he earned his M. S.

According to Joshua Coffin, the early settlers included " Captain John Pike, the ancestor of General Zebulon Montgomery Pike, who was killed at the battle of Queenstown in 1813 ; Thomas Bloomfield, the ancestor of Joseph Bloomfield, some years governor of New Jersey, for whom the township of Bloomfield, New Jersey is named ; John Bishop, senior and junior ; Jonathan Haynes ; Henry Jaques ; George March ; Stephen Kent ; Abraham Toppan, junior ; Elisha Ilsley ; Hugh March ; John Bloomfield ; Samuel Moore ; Nathaniel Webster ; John Ilsley ; and others.

) Johns starred in the premiere of Horton Foote's A Coffin in Egypt in 1998 at the Bay Street Theatre as Myrtle Bledsoe.

While stationed at Boise, Idaho, Holbrook met Henrietta Coffin, ( January 7, 1877 – March 28, 1965 ), the daughter of Frank R. Coffin, a merchant and baker and Charlotte Irene ( Quivey ) Coffin.

Radio carbon dating of the bone fragments that were found place them at an even later date, from the Coptic period in the first centuries AD .< ref > Boughton, Paul " Menkaura's Anthropoid Coffin: A Case of Mistaken Identity?

Early women's rights leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Martha Coffin Wright, Mary Ann M ' Clintock and Jane Hunt hastily organized an influential Women's Rights Convention, also known as the Seneca Falls Convention, held in 1848 at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.

* 26 Men, the 1957 episode " Incident at Yuma " of the syndicated western series of true stories of the Arizona Rangers, focuses on a prison break and the difficulty of gathering a posse faced by Captain Thomas H. Rynning, portrayed by Tristram Coffin.

* William Sloane Coffin — Late Presbyterian / UCC minister and activist ; ' pastor, prophet, poet '; former Chaplain at Yale University and Senior Pastor of Riverside Church, New York City

In 2008, Peacock recorded the Arc of the Circle ( Runway ) with saxophonist Jeff Coffin and the album peaked at No. 2 on the CMJ Jazz Charts.

Downley has a few interesting road names, such as " Bug Alley " which is now Moor Lane, Coffin Lane which is at the end of Moor Lane and leads to Hughenden Church.

William Sloane Coffin, Sr. died at home in 1933 from a heart attack he suffered returning from work on his oldest son Edmund's eleventh birthday.

Coffin had been a friend of George H. W. Bush since his youth, as they both attended Phillips Academy ( 1942 ), and he brought Coffin into the exclusive Skull and Bones secret society at the university in Coffin's senior year.

As chaplain at Yale in the early 1960s, Coffin organized busloads of Freedom Riders to challenge segregation laws in the South.

William Sloane Coffin, former chaplain of Yale University and political activist, retired from Riverside Church to become President of SANE / FREEZE in 1987.

* William Sloane Coffin ( 1924 – 2006 ), Senior Minister at the Riverside Church in New York City, and President of SANE / Freeze ( now Peace Action ).

Shortly after, Thomas Coffin, the runner-up in the election in Trois-Rivières, petitioned the assembly, calling for the removal of Hart because, as a Jew, he was " not capable of being elected to serve in the House of Assembly, or of taking the oaths requires, or sitting or voting in the Assembly ," and asking that the election be considered null and void and that Coffin be given the seat for Trois-Rivières in his place.

The president of the court, Sir Isaac Coffin, wrote to the Admiralty and made several serious accusations against Bligh, including that he had influenced the officers to testify against Short.

These two had formed the American Electric Company in 1880, but it was soon bought up by Charles A. Coffin, moved to Lynn, Massachusetts, and renamed the Thomson-Houston Electric Company.

The Book of the Dead and Coffin Texts were intended to guide people who had recently died through the Duats dangerous landscape and to a life as an akh or blessed spirit amongst the gods.

According to Egyptian writing ( Coffin text, spell 261 ), Heka existed " before duality had yet come into being.

He married to Nancy Bascom Palmer and they had two children: Palmer Lee, and Franklin Rayle Coffin Holbrook, II.

By 1993, more punk acts had signed to Epitaph, including Pennywise, Down by Law, Coffin Break, The Offspring, Rancid, R. K. L., SNFU, Total Chaos and Claw Hammer.

Massachusetts Land Agent George Coffin recorded in his journal during one such journey during autumn 1825, returning from the Upper Saint John and Madawaska area to Fredericton, New Brunswick, that a thunderstorm had ignited a forest fire.

They had five children ( one died in infancy ), including daughter Eva, who married William Sloane Coffin, and son John Rubinstein, a Tony Award-winning actor and father of actor Michael Weston.

This live telecast is notorious for an incident in which actor Tris Coffin, whose character had just died, thought he was out of camera range, and stood up and walked away, while in view of the entire home audience.

After years spent in the most exclusive private schools in Manhattan, the three Coffin children were educated in Carmel's public schools, where William had his first sense that there was injustice — sometimes very great — in the world.

F. A. Coffin and Percival B. Coffin, plaintiffs in error, and A. S. Reed had been charged with aiding and abetting the former president of the Indianapolis National Bank, Theodore P. Haughey, in misdemeanor bank fraud between January 1, 1891, and July 26, 1893.

Coffin built a new two-story brick home in 1838 and had several modifications made to his house to create better hiding places for the slaves.

Coffin had frequent difficulty procuring free goods that were produced with the same quality as those produced by slave labor.

Cincinnati already had a large anti-slavery movement who had violent conflicts with slavery proponents in the years before Coffin moved to the city.

Four of his eight pallbearers were free blacks who had worked with Coffin on the Underground Railroad.

The 1992 event had only one 4 on 4 tag team elimination match, but featured the first WWF Casket match, referred to at that time as a Coffin match, with slightly different rules from what is now employed, as a wrestler had to first pin their opponent and then place them inside a coffin and nail it shut in order to win.

Coffin's application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada was turned down but the federal Cabinet submitted a reference question to that Court asking: " If the application made by Wilbert Coffin for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada had been granted on any of the grounds alleged on the said application, what disposition of the appeal would now be made by the court?