Henry Waldo Coe (1857-1927) Henry Waldo Coe was born in Waupon, Wisconsin, on Nov. 4, 1857. He and his parents moved to Morristown, Minnesota, when Coe was five. After graduating from the local high school, Coe took courses at the University of Minnesota, and studied medicine with his father, Dr. Samuel Buel Coe. He graduated from Long Island (NY) College Hospital in July 1880, and moved to Mandan, North Dakota. While initially among the innumerable single men in the frontier town, in June 1882 he married to Viola Boley, whose parents were among the earliest pioneers to the area.  Mrs. Coe would later provide the organ music for the first Fourth of July celebration in Mandan.  Her father Elijah had brought an organ with them from Iowa.  This organ added music to the community in addition to the Fort Lincoln band and the grand piano in the Custer home. Coe was the first physician to settle in North Dakota.  But he just didn't just "doctor."  He was one of the directors of Mandan's first school board.  In 1890 Coe was elected president of the ND State Medical Association, and was appointed as superintendent of the ND State Board of Health. In 1884 he had been elected to the last territorial legislature (1885) of Dakota Territory, before the territory was divided. Dr. Coe served as mayor of Mandan from 1884-1888. When Dr. Coe was just beginning his medical practice in 1884 in North Dakota, he met a young Theodore Roosevelt who was here trying to regain his health.  Aside from his personal friendship, Henry Coe admired Roosevelt's politics. The county Roosevelt lived in, Billings, was part of the district Coe respresented in the Dakota Territorial Legislature. Their friendship lasted until Roosevelt's death in 1919.  Theodore was a frequent visitor to Mandan. Coe had a statue of Theodore Roosevelt made (by Phimister Proctor)and donated it to the city of Portland.  He also donated a smaller version of this "Roughrider" statue to Mandan in 1924.  It stands today in the ellipse driveway in front of the Railroad Depot on Main Street West. Dr. Coe and his family primarily lived at 203 2nd St NW and at the time, the stable at the rear of the house kept the doctor's  team and buggy ready for any emergency trip into the country-side. Henry and Viola Coe moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1890. He specialized in nervous and mental diseases, and owned and operated Morningside Hospital in Portland. Coe served in the Oregon state senate in 1894 and served as president of the City and County Medical Association. In 1893 he established The Medical Sentinel, an independent medical magazine. In addition to the statue of Theodore Roosevelt, other statues which he donated to Portland were George Washington (by Pompeo Coppini), Abraham Lincoln (by George Fite Waters), and Jeanne d’Arc (by Emmanuel Fremiet). Coe had three sons from two marriages. He died in 1927.