CHILDHOOD IH PHILADELPHIA 



Ollbl Yota> father was horn, I take it, in California* 

 Coggins: Ho, he was bom in Philadelphia, but was broiight 



here when he was two years old. Across the Isthnus* 

 Gilbs Did your father then follow la your grandfather* a 



footsteps in politics and in newspaper work? 

 Coggins s Well, he went back to Philadelphia to study law 



at the TTniversity of Pennsylvania* Then he caiM 



back and was soon elected to one of the smaller 



Judge ships t Then he went back East again, taking 



the family with him* 

 Gilbi Do you know why he left? He was a Judge* 

 Coggins: Partly to administer a family estate* 

 Oilbt So then Philadelphia was the scene of your childhood. 

 Coggins: That* 8 where I went to school* I left when I was 



about twenty->seven and came back to California* 



Reading->«>The New England School 



Qilbt I'd like to know some more about your father there 

 in Philadelphia, what his interests were* You say 

 he was a lawyer* 



Coggins: He was a lawyer* He was interested in writing* 

 As a family, one mi^t say we were readers* But 

 not in the sense people are today; we didn't 



