Glen Coe around Invercoe. In 1894 Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal purchased this area and built a stately mansion, Mount Royal. In 2002 Alistair MacDonald of Glencoe made a successful eleventh-hour bid, and purchased the remaining lands of Lord Strathcona from his descendants. Alistair received unsecured loans from just six donors, and immediately set up the Glencoe Heritage Trust, a non-profit-making charitable trust, to secure the heritage of this part of Glen Coe. Glen Coe is a very popular tourist destination: partly because of its scenic qualities and historical associations, partly because it is on the main road
William Robertson Coe March 15, 1955, he was buried at Locust Valley on Long Island. Two years after his death, in 1957, the Virginian Railway named its new tugboat "W. R. Coe" in his memory. After the VGN merger with the Norfolk and Western in 1959, it was renamed "R.B. Claytor" (for the N&W leader, Robert B. Claytor). As of 2003, the tugboat was serving the harbor of Boston as the "Karen B. Tibbetts". William Robertson Coe William Robertson Coe (June 8, 1869 – March 15, 1955) was an insurance, railroad and business executive, a major owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses, as