Rector, St. Paul's School
Centurion, 1897–1906
Born 11 September 1831 in Wilmington, Delaware
Died 17 March 1906 in Camden, South Carolina
Buried Saint Pauls School Cemetery
, Concord, New Hampshire
Proposed by David H. Greer and George William Douglas
Elected 4 December 1897 at age sixty-six
Century Memorial
The Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Coit, born in Delaware in 1831, and graduated from St. James College, Maryland, was engaged in educational work for very many years, first at St. James College, then for a brief period at Hobart College, and from 1865 at the famous St. Paul’s School, at Concord, N. H., of which the founder was his brother, whom he succeeded as rector in 1895. In this sustained labor, performed with the utmost fidelity and with rare skill and intelligence, Dr. Coit made his influence deeply and tenderly felt by thousands of “St. Paul’s boys” in all parts of the Union.
Edward Cary
1907 Century Association Yearbook