Joshua Coit (1831-1907) was born in New London, Connecticut, and died in Winchester, Massachusetts. He was a graduate of Yale University (1853) and Andover Theological Seminary (1856). In 1860, he was ordained pastor of the Congregational church at Brookfield, Massachusetts, where he preached for 11 years. From 1874 until the end of 1882, he served as pastor of the Lawrence Street Congregational Church in Lawrence, Massachusetts. In 1883, he started work as the Secretary of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, a position he held until his retirement in 1903.

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