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- The following transcription is provided by Louise Jones from "The Biographical Encyclopedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century" "Collector of Internal Revenue for the Eleventh District of Ohio, was born in Clinton county, Ohio, June 23d, 1827, of Quaker parents, his father, Aquila Coates, being a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, and descended from a family that settled in that State with William Penn. His mother, Rachel Pidgeon Coates, was a native of Lynchburg, Virginia. He received his early education in the common schools of his native county, and at the age of twenty began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Aquilla Jones, in Wilmington, Ohio, and subsequently graduated in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He first located for the practice of his profession at Mowrystown, Highland county, Ohio, in 1850, where he remained until 1853, when he removed to West Union, the county-seat of Adams county, Ohio. Here he continued the practice of his profession industriously and successfully for nine years, being part of the time in partnership with Dr. David Coleman, a prominent physician of that place.
In 1857 he married Elizabeth J. Patterson, daughter of the late Hon. John Patterson, of Adams county, Ohio. In 1861 he was elected to the Ohio Senate, from the district composed of Adams, Scioto, Jackson and Pike counties, which office he held one term.
In 1862, at the solicitation of Governor Tod, he assisted in recruiting and organizing the 91st Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry for the Union army, and being commissioned its Lieutenant-Colonel, accompanied the regiment to the field, and served with it to the close of the war, and was mustered out of the service with his regiment June 30th, 1865. In the battle of Lynchburg, Virginia, on June 17th, 1864, Colonel John A. Turley being wounded, he took command of the regiment. On. December 9th, 1864, he was commissioned Colonel, and on the 13th of March, 1865, was brevetted a Brigadier-General. In the battle of Winchester, Virginia, September 19th, 1864, he took command of the 2d Brigade of General R. B. Hayes' Division, Army of West Virginia, commanded by General George Crook, and continued in command of this brigade under General Sheridan during his campaign in the Shenandoah valley, participating in all the brilliant and hard-fought battles of that ever memorable and victorious campaign, ending with the battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia. On being mustered out of the service, General Coates located in Portsmouth, Ohio, and engaged in the wholesale drug business, in which he continued until appointed United States Collector of Internal Revenue for the Eleventh Collection District of Ohio, October 1st, 1866, which position he still continues to hold, now being in charge of the consolidated Eleventh and Twelfth Districts, by appointment of President Grant. He was one of the original projectors and organizers of the Ohio State Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, at Xenia, Ohio, and was appointed by Governor Hayes one of its first Board of Trustees. He is one of the Directors of the Kinney National Bank of Portsmouth, and a Director and Treasurer of the Portsmouth Street Railroad Company. He is a hospitable, courteous and universally respected gentleman, and an honest, efficient and faithful public officer. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century Name David Appleton Morse, M. D."
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1827 - 1899 (71 years)
