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3 unusual facts about Ernest F. Coe


Ernest F. Coe

In 1997, the 105th Congress declared that Coe was the primary force behind the creation of Everglades National Park, acknowledged that he is considered the "Father of Everglades National Park", and resolved that the visitors' center closest to Homestead be dedicated in his name.

He became involved in the same intellectual and social circles as Charles Torrey Simpson and David Fairchild, who together formed the Florida Society of Natural History.

Coe drafted the proposal for the park and Senator Duncan Fletcher and Congreswoman Ruth Bryan Owen introduced the legislation to create Everglades National Park.


Carl Johan Calleman

He became fascinated with the concept of a calendar that had an "end date" and was influenced by the works of Michael D. Coe.

Ernest F. Storandt

==Biography== Storandt was born on July 2, 1882 in Burr Oak, Wisconsin.

Jo-Anne L. Coe

While in college, she was briefly married to Benjamin Plaisted Coe and had one daughter, Kathryn Coe Coombs (1953-2011), who was married to British Member of Parliament Simon Coombs from 1983-2002.

She was born Jo-Anne Lee Johnson in Coronado, California, daughter of Admiral Roy L. Johnson, former Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (1965-67) and the former Margaret Louise Gross.

John W. Coe

He was for many years an active Republican, but joined the Liberal Republican Party in 1872, and was a delegate to the Liberal Republican National Convention in Cincinnati which nominated Horace Greeley for President.

Louise Burkhart

Burkhart was awarded her Ph.D. in 1986, where her dissertation was supervised by renowned Mayanist scholar Michael D. Coe.

Ralph T. Coe

His lifelong interest in Native American art was sparked serendipitously in 1955, when he happened upon a Northwest coast totem pole standing in a shop on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

The Dobzhanskys had one daughter, Sophie, who later married the American archaeologist and anthropologist Michael D. Coe.

William Rogers Coe

Bill Coe married Clover Simonton in 1923, and they had two sons, William Robertson Coe II and Michael D. Coe, both archaeologists.

Winds of the Forelands

"The Winds of the Forelands" is a five-book fantasy series written by American author David B. Coe and consisting of "The Rules of Ascension", "Seeds of Betrayal", "Bonds of Vengeance", "Shapers of Darkness", and "Weavers of War".


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