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Title Coggins, E. H. (Edward H.)
Date ca. 1822-1862
Description Edward H. Coggins, born ca. 1822 in Pennsylvania, worked as a flour and feed dealer, engraver, printer, stationer and photographer in Philadelphia between 1851 and 1862. He began work as an engraver in 1853 at the northwest corner of Eighth and Market Streets (30 North Eighth Street), where he remained for his career in the printing trade, including acting as publisher of the L. N. Rosenthal lithograph reissue of "An East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia" (1854). In 1859, Horatio N. Harbach partnered with Coggins, but by 1861 Theodore J. Harbach took over his interest of the business (renamed Harbach & Bros.). Consequently, Coggins changed his profession to photographer and removed from Center City to Hestonville (West Philadelphia), where he opened and operated a portrait gallery on Lancaster Avenue above the railroad depot until the early years of the Civil War and his enlistment ca. 1862.
Near the beginning of his career in the printing trade (1850), Coggins lived with his father and siblings in the Spring Garden Ward (Ward 1) and by the end (i.e., 1860) he resided in Ward 24 in Hestonville, on Lancaster Avenue, with one servant, Eliza Higbee.
A soldier in Company P of the 28th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, Coggins died of wounds inflicted during the Battle of Antietam at the end of September 1862.
Is part of Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
References See Rosenthal, L. N.
Call number Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Bibliographic citation Census 1850 and 1860
Groce and Wallace, 136
Pennsylvania Freeman September 15, 1853
Peters, 143
Philadelphia Business and City Directories, 1851-1862
Philadelphia Inquirer, October 8, 1862
WWWAA, 682