Coire Gabhail by members of Clan Macdonald to hide cattle and other livestock, whether their own or stolen from others. Like other clans in the area, cattle were the mainstay of their economy, both herding and raiding: young men boastfully sang of getting cows from the Mearns. The wide flat glen is well suited for this purpose since from Glen Coe it appears to be a normal v-shaped glen approached only by a steep narrow gorge. The Macdonalds commonly had feuds with Clan Campbell. This culminated tragically in the 1692 massacre of Glencoe when Campbell soldiers turned on Macdonald clansfolk who fled
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