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William Robertson Coe (June 8, 1869 – March 14, 1955) was an insurance, railroad and business executive, a major owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses, as well as a collector of Americana and an important philanthropist for the academic discipline of American Studies.
William Robertson Coe II (28 November, 1926 – 23 November, 2009) was an American archaeologist and Mayanist academic. He conducted extensive field work on pre-Columbian Maya civilization sites, and published numerous works on the subject.
Richard O. Prum (born 1961) is an evolutionary biologist and ornithologist.He is the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, as well as the head curator of vertebrate zoology at the university's Peabody Museum of Natural History.
Near the end of America's Gilded Age, the estate named Planting Fields was the home of William Robertson Coe, an insurance and railroad executive, and his wife Mary "Mai" Huttleston (née Rogers) Coe, the youngest daughter of millionaire industrialist Henry H. Rogers, who had been a principal of Standard Oil. It includes the 67-room Coe Hall ...
By 1910, William Robertson Coe had become president of Johnson and Higgins Insurance, and he was involved in insuring the hull of the RMS Titanic which sank on its maiden voyage in 1912. Like many other famous families of the Gilded Age, the Coe family had been booked for the ill-fated liner's return trip to Southampton, England. By 1916, Coe ...
William Coe may refer to: . William Coe (governor), Governor of Guam Wesley Coe (William Wesley Coe, Jr., 1879–1926), Olympic shot put athlete; William Robertson Coe (1869–1955), English-born American insurance and railways executive, philanthropist, racehorse owner/breeder
Weldon is one of several troopers granted immunity to testify against their supervisors, Lt. Daniel J. Griffin and Sgt. William R. Robertson, in connection with allegations they coordinated the ...
Coe was born on February 27, 1902. He was the second son of William Robertson Coe and Mai Huttleston Rogers Coe.His siblings included banker and railroad executive William Rogers Coe, philanthropist Henry Huttleston Rogers Coe, and Natalie Mai Coe who became the Countess Vitetti after she married Commendatore Leonardo Vitetti, the Italian Ambassador to France.