Place of Origin

United States ➔ Ohio ➔ Euclid

Date of Composition

ca. 1837

Description

Henry Coit was born in 1791 to Daniel and Elizabeth Coit, in Norwich, Connecticut. He married Mary Breed (1795-1856), also of Norwich, in 1795, and the couple had five children born between 1820 and 1839. He died in Newark, New Jersey, in 1870, while visiting one of his daughters.

Henry's father, Daniel, acquired vast tracts of Connecticut Land Company lands in Ohio, including the whole township of Liverpool, Ohio, and 1,000 acres in Euclid, Ohio, now East Cleveland. As an agent for his father, Henry Coit came to Liverpool around 1814, at which time there were only seven families in the township. He established a salt works and a country store and cleared a large farm, all of which he sold around 1828. Following the death of his father, in 1833, he took possession of a large tract of land in Euclid, where he built a mansion called The Beeches, which was surrounded by beautiful grounds. Presumably it was there that he complied his recipe book and garden journal.*

*Biographical information on Henry Coit courtesy of Bratenahl Historical Society.