Massacre of Glencoe Massacre of Glencoe The Massacre of Glencoe () took place in Glen Coe in the Highlands of Scotland on 13 February 1692, following the Jacobite uprising of 1689-92. An estimated thirty-eight members and associates of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were killed by government forces billeted with them, with others later alleged to have died of exposure, on the grounds they had not been prompt in pledging allegiance to the new monarchs, William III of England and II of Scotland and Mary II. In March 1689, James II of England and VII of Scotland landed in Ireland in an attempt to
William Rogers Coe William Rogers Coe William "Bill" Rogers Coe (1901-1971) was an American railway businessman. William Rogers Coe was born in 1901. He was the first son of William Robertson Coe and Mai Huttleston Rogers Coe. He was educated at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He then attended Princeton University and the United States Naval Academy. He followed his father into the railway business. Eventually, he became Vice-President and Treasurer of the Virginian Railway Company, the railroad that his grandfather, Henry Huttleston Rogers had built. He married Clover Simonton in 1923, and they had two sons, William Robertson Coe II