[1] The elder Coler established a banking house after the Civil War and brought his family to Brooklyn.

He was the author of Commercialism in Politics, Two and Two Make Four, He Made Them Twain, and other sociological works.

[2] In 1927, Coler, then the commissioner for public welfare in New York City, investigated "The Santa Claus Association" of John Duval Gluck.

The association became embroiled in controversy as a result of dubious fundraising and accounting practices.

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