attack at his new home in Palm Beach, Florida on March 15, 1955, he was buried at Locust Valley Cemetery on Long Island. Two years after his death, in 1957, the Virginian Railway named its new tugboat W. R. Coe in his memory. After the VGN merger with the Norfolk and Western in 1959, it was renamed R.B. Claytor (for the N&W leader, Robert B. Claytor). As of 2003, the tugboat was serving the harbor of Boston as the Karen B. Tibbetts. References External links University of Wyoming Planting Fields website, William Robertson Coe page The Edward Eberstadt & Sons Records at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, document the formation of the Coe Collection of Western Americana. 1869 births 1955 deaths American businesspeople in insurance 20th-century American railroad executives American racehorse owners and breeders English emigrants to the United States People from Kingswinford People from Palm Beach, Florida People from Cody, Wyoming