Born: 04/22/1895   Ellicott
Died: 08/18/1989
Parents: Adam Frederick and Emma Viola Brown
Spouse: Bernard Frederick Coggan
Children: Three sons and one daughter (Bernard Frederick, Jr., Norman Navarre (died at age 2), Forrest Winston and Ramona Nadine.
Address(es):
Interred:
Deepdale Cemetery
Lansing , MI

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	An Introduction into Marble Community and School Director's Record of School Dist. No. 8 of the Township of Meridian, A.D. 1860 - Origins of the Marble Community, an historic Michigan community in Meridian Township, Ingham County (Publication Years: 1970-1976?)	Michigan History	Adult	Self Published	1970 -1976
	Prior Foster; pioneer Afro-American educator - First Afro-American to found and incorporate an educational institution in the Northwest Territory, Woodstock Manual Labor Institute, Addison, Lenawee County, Michigan	Non Fiction		John Kaechele	1969
	The Soul Turner: a Handful of Stars - Based on a diary of a pioneer bride	Fiction		B. B. Coggan	1961
	Out of the Past-Into the Future: a pageant of the growth of a historic Michigan community - Lansing Local History collection.	Drama , Michigan History	Adult	New York : Greenwich Book Publishers	1956
	When God Quit: a Story of the Days After the Bombs	Fiction	Adult	New York : Greenwich Book Publishers	1955
	International Journal - Article on religious education	Non Fiction
	Journal of Gerontology - Article published	Non Fiction
	Other writings: - Poetry published in Boys' Life	Poetry	Children

What is the aim or goal of your writing: While in Lansing gave illustrated talks of local history and preCivil War underground railroad in Michigan.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

MeLCat Links:
http://elibrary.mel.org/search~S15?/aCoggan%2C+Blanche+B.+%28Blanche+Brown%29/acoggan+blanche+b+blanche+brown/-3,-1,0,B/browse

Blanche B. Coggen papers are located at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. Biography and Finding Aid may be viewed online at: http://thewright.org/archives/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MSS173.pdf . The Blanche B. Coggan Collection at the Michigan Archives (http://184.168.105.185/archivegrid/collection/data/41557548) consists of the records of the Michigan Anti-slavery Society (1852-1857, 1960-1982).

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