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daughters. The six sons who lived
formed a unique group. Together they
were able to design, build, rig and sail a
ship of any ordinary size.
The draftsman and carpenter of this
unusual combination was James Thomp-
son Carmichael, father of the subject of
this sketch. He was born in Halifax,
Nova Scotia, April 3, 1832, the fourth
child of his parents. On December 25,
1861, he married Susan Roberts, of Parrs-
boro. Nova Scotia, the second child of
Thomas and Elizabeth Emma (Beck)
Roberts. In 1873 James T. Carmichael
removed with his family to Medway,
Massachusetts, where he worked as car-
penter and builder. In 1876 he contracted
pneumonia and was left an invalid until
his death, October 18, 1881. His widow
and six children survived him.
The sixth child of James T. and Susan
(Roberts) Carmichael was George Edgar
Carmichael. He was born in Medway,
Massachusetts, August 22, 1875. In 1892
he was graduated from Medway High
School. A year later, he entered Bowdoin
College, whence he was graduated A. B.,
in 1897. After graduation Mr. Carmichael
taught for two years in the Hamilton
School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; a
year in the Choate School, Wallingford,
Connecticut, and two years in the Greenwich
Academy, Greenwich, Connecticut.
In 1902, at the advice and request of
friends who had boys to be educated, he
started Brunswick School. From the be-
ginning the school has grown and pros-
pered, and for twenty years Mr. Car-
michael has found it a satisfying field for
labor.
In college Mr. Carmichael joined the
Kappa Sigma fraternity, and at graduation
was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He
is a member of the Schoolmasters' Asso-
ciation of New York (vice-president,
1920), and of the Headmasters' Associa-
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tion. In 1910 he compiled and edited
"The Songs of Kappa Sigma."
December 25, 1912, Mr. Carmichael
married Helen Gertrude Fox, only child
of Everett Fremont and Carrie Belle
(Ricker) Fox, of Milton Mills, New
Hampshire. They have one child, Mar-
garet, born February 25, 1914. Mrs. Carmichael
is a descendant of many generations
of New England pioneer stock. She
is a graduate of Nute High School, Mil-
ton, New Hampshire, and of Wellesley
College.
COE, Walter Ellsworth,
Lawyer, Aided In World 'War.
Few of the Colonial families can be
traced in England to such an ancient date
as the Coe family. It appears about 1300
with the spelling le Koo, which later became
le Coo, and before 1400 A. D. is
found Coo. The form of Coe does not
appear until about 1575. The English
ancestor, John Coo, was born in the reign
of King Edward III., and died about 1415.
He was a prominent man in his day, and
was the father of John (2) Coo, born
about 1375, and died about 1425. The
latter married Eleanor, and their son,
John (3) Coo, was born about 1400, and
died after 1448. His son, Thomas Coe,
was born about 1430, and died about 1507.
His son, John Coe, was born about 1460,
and his will was proved in 1520. He was'
of Gestingthorpe, and married Joane,
daughter of Thomas Golding. Their son,
John Coe, married Margaret, and was the
father of John Coe, born in 1623, died in
1558. He lived in Maplestead and Wiston,
and married Dorothy. They were
the parents of Henry Coe, born about
1565 died in 1631. He lived in Thorpe-
Morieux, and married Mary. They were
the parents of three sons, of whom Robert
Coe, the eldest, was the ancestor of the
family ,'n America.