1. John Coolidge was an American executive, businessman, and entrepreneur with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
15 Facts About John Coolidge
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John Coolidge was the first son of Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States and Grace Coolidge, the First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929.
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John Coolidge was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, on September 7,1906.
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John Coolidge was the elder of the two children of Calvin Coolidge and Grace Anna Goodhue.
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John Coolidge attended Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1924.
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John Coolidge then enrolled at Amherst College, his father's alma mater.
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John Coolidge was an executive with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
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John Coolidge served as president of the Connecticut Manifold Forms Company until 1960, when he reopened the Plymouth Cheese Corporation in Plymouth at the historic village.
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John Coolidge helped start the Coolidge Foundation and his gifts of buildings, land, and artifacts were instrumental in creating the President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site.
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Well into his 80s, John Coolidge was seen shuttling back and forth from his home near the Calvin John Coolidge Historical Site to collect his mail at the old post office located on the historic site.
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John Coolidge was reportedly a charming and excited talker who would still answer visitors' questions about his father or his family, and who would, on occasion, give a rare personal interview.
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John Coolidge was born on November 30,1904, at Plainville, Connecticut, the daughter of Connecticut governor John H Trumbull and Maud Pierce Usher.
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Florence died on February 15,1998, at Plymouth Notch, Vermont, and John Coolidge died on May 31,2000, at Lebanon, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
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John Coolidge was buried beside his wife, parents, brother, and several generations of the Coolidge family in the Plymouth Notch Cemetery at Plymouth, Windsor County, Vermont.
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John Coolidge was descended as follows from Edmund Rice, who arrived at Watertown in 1638 and settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts:.