Glen Coe Coire Gabhail (corrie of the "bounty", or "hollow of capture") refers to former times when the corrie was used by members of Clan Macdonald to hide cattle and other livestock, whether their own or stolen from others. 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. Summits in the Bidean nam Bian massif include Stob Coire Sgreamhach, Stob Coire nan Lochan and Aonach Dubh (the third "sister"). By contrast the north side of the glen is a stark wall of
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