Hugh James Coyle is my 1st cousin, 3 X’s removed, my Great Grandmother’s 1st cousin.
1857-1917
From A Centennial Memorial History of Allegany County, New York, page 939 written by John S. Minard, Esq, County Historian, 1896 In a biography about Marcus M. Congdon. "He has held important public offices, and was elected to the assembly in 1891 on the Republican ticket by 2,508 plurality over Hugh J. Coyle, Democrat, and George A. Scott, Prohibitionist and Farmers' Alliance."