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- They had 9 children, two of them being born and listed in the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting records. In "The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue: Chester County 1809-1870", July 20, 1869, the VILLAGE RECORD gives the following obituary: "DEATH OF DR. CALEB COATES - In Philadelphia, at the residence of his son-in-law, Richard Mather, June 19th, Dr. Caleb Coates, expired at the ripe age of 90. Dr. C. Coates was the brother of the late and lamented Dr. Jesse Coates, and the only surviving child of Moses Coates, the founder of our flourishing Coatesville. Dr C. Coates, was one of the pioneer of dental science and practiced the profession over half a century. He is believed to have been the inventor of porcelain teeth, and had at one period a very large patronage. For honesty, truthfulness and high moral tone the Dr. never had a superior. In the death of this second son of Moses Coates we have the total extinction of this branch, of a large, honorable, and well known family." (Coatesville Union.) (C-1615 EL)
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