Daniel Coghlan (January 1, 1812 – March 22, 1877) was an Irish-American industrialist and politician. He was a member of
New Jersey General Assembly from 1868 - ? for the
Morris County 1st District, then encompassing
Chatham
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Hanover
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Morris and
Passaic
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townships.
In 1855, Coghlan purchased the Jefferson mill, near Monroe, and operated it until it burned down in 1861.
He purchased the Eden papermill in
Whippany, New Jersey in 1861.
He was a founding trustee of
Seton Hall University
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as a signatory to the college's 1861 charter.
He founded Our Lady of Mercy in Whippany, New Jersey for the Catholic employees of his paper mills.
He was a director of the First National Bank of Morristown.
He died suddenly of a heart attack on March 22, 1877, while in New York City on a business trip.
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1812 births
1877 deaths
19th-century American legislators
Members of the New Jersey General Assembly
19th-century New Jersey politicians