now make up the MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District. Personal life On September 14, 1920, he married Catherine Butterfield in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Together, they had a son: William Sloane Coffin Jr. (1924–2006), who became a clergyman and a noted peace activist. Coffin died on December 16, 1933 at his home in Manhattan, New York City from a coronary thrombosis. He was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. See also Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District References External links William Sloane Coffin, Sr. papers at Yale University William Sloane Coffin Sr. portrait at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Yale College alumni Presidents of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1879 births 1933 deaths Burials at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery American merchants People from Manhattan