Datus Ensign Coon Explained

Datus Ensign Coon (1831–1893) was a newspaper publisher, Union Army officer during the American Civil War, planter, and state politician in Alabama. He was a delegate to the 1875 Alabama Constitutional Convention and a fraternal order of veterans president in San Diego, California.[1] He served as a state legislator during the Reconstruction era in Alabama. representing Dallas County, Alabama in the Alabama House of Representatives.[2] He served on investigating committee evaluating corruption allegations against U.S. Senator George E. Spencer.[3]

He was the son of Luke Coon Jr. and Lois Locina Burdick, born in De Ruyter, New York to a religious family with roots in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. He was named for Datus Ensign (1783-1853),[4] a famous evangelist of the time.[5] He worked on a farm in Iowa with his father before starting a newspaper.[6] During the American Civil War he served as Colonel of the 2nd Iowa Cavalry Regiment and eventually commanded a cavalry brigade.[7]

In 1872 he was documented as an inspector in the 2nd District of Alabama.[8] A specimen of gypsiferous marl from him in Selma, Alabama was documented in an agricultural report in 1872.[9]

He served as U.S. Commercial Agent in Baracoa, Cuba.

He moved to San Diego in 1878 to serve as a "Chinese Inspector" (Chinese Exclusion Act).[10] He was a leading member of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) in San Diego and was accidentally shot in 1893. The organization named one of its posts for him.[11]

He is buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery in San Diego.[12]

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  1. Web site: The Code of Alabama: 1876. December 31, 1877. Barrett & Brown. Google Books.
  2. Web site: House Documents. USA Congress House of. Representatives. December 31, 1875. U.S. Government Printing Office. Google Books.
  3. Web site: Journal of the Senate of the State of Alabama. Alabama Legislature. Senate. December 31, 1876. Google Books.
  4. Web site: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/K2VC-DNT/reverend-datus-ensign-iii-1783-1853.
  5. Family genealogical records of Elizabeth Smith Clark et al.
  6. Web site: Iowa Colonels and Regiments: Being a History of Iowa Regiments in the War of the Rebellion; and Containing a Description of the Battles in which They Have Fought. Addison A.. Stuart. December 31, 1865. Mills & Company. Google Books.
  7. Web site: Report of the Adjutant General and Acting Quartermaster General of the State of Iowa. Iowa Adjutant General's. Office. December 31, 1865. F.W. Palmer, state printer. Google Books.
  8. Web site: An Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the U.S.. United States Department of the. Treasury. December 31, 1872. Google Books.
  9. Web site: Monthly Report of the Department of Agriculture: 1872 (1873). USA Department of. Agriculture. December 31, 1873. U.S. Government Printing Office. Google Books.
  10. https://honors.libraries.psu.edu/files/final_submissions/797
  11. https://sandiegohistory.org/wp-content/uploads/migrated/online_resources/downloads/MS%2520157%2520Grand%2520Army%2520of%2520the%2520Republic%2520Collection.pdf
  12. Web site: The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Coon. politicalgraveyard.com.

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