Henry sloane coffin biography of mahatma

Henry Sloane Coffin (January 5, 1877, in New York City – November 25, 1954, in Lakeville, Connecticut) was president of the Union Theological Seminary, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, and one of the most famous ministers in the United States.

He was also one of the translators of the popular hymn "O Come, O Come Emmanuel", along with John Mason Neale.^[1][2]

Biography

Coffin was the son of Edmund Coffin and Euphemia Sloane.

He was an heir to the fortune of the furniture firm of W. and J. Sloane & Co. His brother was William Sloane Coffin, who was later the president of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Coffin attended Yale College and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1897.

Henry sloane coffin biography of mahatma

In 1896, he was one of fifteen juniors invited to join the Skull and Bones. He then received his master's degree from Yale in 1900.

During his time at Yale, Coffin was on friendly terms with evangelist Dwight L