Tulare County Biographies

DAVID FRANKLIN COFFEE

Transcribed by Beverly Green

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David Franklin Coffee, County Assessor of Tulare County, California, dates his 
birth in Tennessee, May 10, 1845. He is a son of Joel and Martha (Moore) Coffee, 
the former a native of Tennessee and the latter of Kentucky. His paternal 
ancestors came from Scotland to America before the Revolution. They subsequently 
settled in Kentucky and were among the prominent pioneers of that State. General 
Coffee, a cousin of Mr. Coffee's father, was a general in the Confederate army.

David F. was next to the youngest in a family of eight children, and he was 
reared and educated in southern Illinois. In 1864, at the age of nineteen years, 
he came to California and settled in Stanislaus County, engaging in agricultural 
pursuits. In 1874 he removed to Tulare County, and purchased and improved a 
ranch. His political views have always been those of the Democracy, and in 1890 
he was nominated by his party and elected Assessor of the county, which position 
he is filling with marked ability.

Mr. Coffee was united in marriage in 1868, to Miss Elorendo Hunter, a native of 
Canada. Seven children have been born to them, all in California, namely: Joel 
Stanford, Ada Ella, Clara, Laura, Rosie, Mina and Leroy. The two last named died 
in infancy.

Mr. Coffee is associated with the A. O. U. W. and the K. of P.

SOURCE: Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Fresno, Tulare and 
Kern, California, Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892, Page 309