Researching Glen Coffield
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 102 people with the Coffield surname? In that year Coffield was ranked number 3477 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Glen means "A Secluded, Woody Valley" and is of Gaelic origin.
Records of Glen Coffield on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Glen Coffield and the Coffield Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 251 people with the Coffield surname in the UK? Coffield is now ranked number 3806 for popularity in the UK. |
Coffield Family History Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Coffield surname in the USA? Coffield is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Glen Coffield
Glen Coffield
Glenn Stemmons Coffield (June 5, 1917 – June 16, 1981) was an American poet and conscientious objector. He was born in Prescott, Arizona, and received a B.S. degree in education from Central Missouri State Teachers College in 1940. During World War II, he served in Civilian Public Service (CPS) Camp #7 in Magnolia, Arkansas, and then was transferred to the Camp Angel CPS camp near Waldport, Oregon in 1942.Coffield is sometimes called Oregon's first hippie.
The artist Kemper Nomland was at Camp Angel, and attempted to capture Coffield's creativity in a painting donated to the Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.Coffield's first collection of poems Ultimatum (1943) was a one-man operation since he was author, typist, designer and illustrator, as with most of his subsequent works.His anthology Horned Moon was published by Everson's Untide Press in 1944. In the poem Indivisible he describes the world as more loosely strung than a nation, feeling pain more slowly "as when wild horses stampede on broken hooves".Some of his poems were also published in the Untide Press magazine Illiterati.
After the war Coffield did some acting in San Francisco with a repertory called The Interplayers led by Kermit Sheets. From 1947-1954 he ran the Grundtvig Folk School at Eagle Creek in the Mount Hood wilderness in Oregon, where he published numerous small poetry journals and newsletters. In the 1960s Coffield moved back to San Francisco, where he was severely injured in a hit and run accident. Coffield spent the rest of his life in Missouri, and died in Mt. Vernon.
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