Isaac Coe

Early life and education Coe was born near Dover, New Jersey, to Ebenezer and Cleopatra Coe . He received Christian training growing up. He is a descendant of Robert Coe, a New England Colonist and early politician.

Coe was a commissioner of Indianapolis, including the Fund commissioner the Indiana Mammoth Internal Improvement Act. The law added $10 million in funding for public works. Due to the Panic of 1837 and the area's geography, many of the projects failed and the town was nearly bankrupted.

In his biographical sketch of Coe, Senator Oliver H. Smith said that he laughed at Coe for suggesting the capital of Indiana would someday be home to 5,000 people, which was in the woods at the time. By 1850, the capital had surpassed 8,000, and at the time of his death, more than 20,000. Smith wrote, "few men did as much as the Dr. to form society at Indianapolis".

He is buried next to his wife, Rebecca Coe at the Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis (Section 1, Lot 67).