[3] In October 1883, Coolidge joined the staff of the Springfield Republican where he worked for four and a half years.

He resigned in April 1888 to move to Washington to become private secretary to then U.S. Representative Henry Cabot Lodge.

[5] In April 1924, while he was Treasurer of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, he announced that he would seek the Republican nomination for U.S.

[6] His run was unsuccessful and by March 1925, he resigned from the United Shoe Corporation,[7] months before his death on May 31, 1925.

[8] After a funeral at the Old South Church in Boston, he was buried at Dell Park Cemetery in Natick.