Either lay mother or grandmother subscribed 

 to the Woman's Journal ^ edited by Alice Stone 

 Blackvell* It ves the organ of suffraglsta* 



011b t Hsd your mother also been a Quaker? 



Coggins: Ho* Her people came from MassachusettSf probably 

 Pilgriin stock* But her mother as a girl had come 

 across the plains in a covered wagon* 



School and Ornithology 



dilbt Did you go to the public school in Philadelphia? 



Cogginst Yes* 



dilbt How far along did you got 



Cogginsx I only vent through high school* 



Oilbs Sinee your father had gone to college » %diat made 

 you deeide to quit at that point? 



Cogginst X dldn*t have any incentive to go to college* 



There wasn't anything I wanted to be« Za thos# 

 days things were different* There were very few 

 boys I knew who wanted to be any special thing* 

 There were a few wanted to be doetors and laifyeani 

 and engineers* Host of us, when we got through 

 school » Just wanted a Job* We wanted to earn 

 noney* 



0ilbi You told me that as a boy you had become interested 

 in birds and ornithology* 



