Cassius M. Coe

Cassius M. Coe (April 16, 1855 ) was an American journalist, newspaper editor and proprietor, and the president of the San Francisco Press Club. He owned and was the editor of the San Francisco Examiner;

Coe was born was in Dalton, Ohio, to Jonathan and Mary Ann Coe. He is a direct descendent of American colonial Robert Coe. He grew up in Des Moines, Iowa. In his youth, Coe moved to Colorado from Iowa, interested in reporting on the bustling Ten Mile mining district in Summit County, including the ghost towns of Kokomo and Robinson. There he co-founded the The Summit County Times with Benjamin Macready, a well-known mining expert, operating as Coe & Macready. In 1882, they sold The Times to a stock company, which the Daily Journal in Breckenridge referred to as "a mess." They also said that Coe and Macready were "scamps" who endeavored to make everyone in the town their enemy. Coe and Macready also co-owned Buckeye State mine on Sugarloaf Mountain. and Coe reported for The Tacoma Daily Ledger, and other Seattle-area publications. where he assumed the role of editor of the Victoria Times. followed by California, where he settled in San Francisco, initially working as a hotel reporter at the San Francisco Examiner. In 1889, he brought the work of an English writer to the editor of the Examiner, insisting he publish it. The editor refused the manuscript. The author was Rudyard Kipling, who later became a famous writer and Nobel Laureate. Coe became the editor and owner of the Examiner. At The Call, he met fellow journalist Marie Evelyn , and the two became engaged. Lister was one of the earliest female reporters in American journalism. She wrote under the name "Evelyn Marie" at the The Morning Call under the editorship of Samuel M. Shortridge. She also was a playwright. By December of 1900, Coe became critically ill with pneumonia.

In the spring of 1901, Coe and his wife travelled to Yuma, Arizona, with several other California-based newspaper editors where he hoped to recover in a dryer climate. While in Yuma, he worked on a special assignment for the Arizona Sentinel''. She died on August 25, 1931, in California.