on July 31, 1917, due to his retirement. Personal life Coxe was married to Maryette Andrews Doolittle (1852–1947), a daughter of Charles Hutchins Doolittle and Julia Tyler ( Shearman) Doolittle. Together, they were the parents of five children: Gertrude Doolittle Coxe (b. 1878), who married John Trumbull Robinson, a son of Henry Robinson of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1905. Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr. (1884–1970), who also became a federal judge, serving on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1929 to 1957; he married Helen Emery, a daughter of Woodward Emery of Boston, Massachusetts, in 1913. Isabel Elise Coxe (b. 1883), who married Louis Seabury Weeks, in 1913. Charles Shearman Coxe (1886–1955), who married Helen Osborn, daughter of the Rev. Louis Shreve Osborn of Salem, Massachusetts in 1913. Howard Cleveland Coxe (1897–1940), was a newspaperman and novelist. Coxe died on April 15, 1923, in Hartford, Connecticut. His widow died in 1947. Descendants Through his son Charles, he was a grandfather of Louis Osborne Coxe (1918–1993), the poet and playwright best known for writing the Broadway version of Billy Budd. References Sources |- 1847 births 1923 deaths Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit United States federal judges appointed by Chester A. Arthur 19th-century American judges United States court of appeals judges appointed by Theodore Roosevelt 20th-century American judges Conkling family