Kate Foote Coe

Katherine Elizabeth Foote Coe (May 31, 1840 – December 23, 1923) was an American educator, journalist, and traveler from Connecticut.

[1] Kate's older sister Harriet Ward Foote married General Joseph Roswell Hawley, governor of Connecticut and United States senator.

In 1863, she and her sister Harriet went to South Carolina and Florida with the New England Freedmen's Aid Society,[3] to teach former slaves during the American Civil War.

[7] Some Chilkat woven blankets Kate Foote Coe acquired in or from Alaska were donated to the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.

[7] In widowhood she lived with her younger sister, Elizabeth Foote Jenkins, in New Haven, Connecticut.