Datus Ensign Coon (1831–1893) was a newspaper publisher, Union Army officer during the American Civil War, planter, and state politician in Alabama.
He was a delegate to the 1875 Alabama Constitutional Convention and a fraternal order of veterans president in San Diego, California.
[1] He served as a state legislator during the Reconstruction era in Alabama.
[3] He was the son of Luke Coon Jr. and Lois Locina Burdick, born in De Ruyter, New York to a religious family with roots in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
[8] A specimen of gypsiferous marl from him in Selma, Alabama was documented in an agricultural report in 1872.