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Edgar T. Coene, Group C Founder And Chairman, Dies At 83

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Ed attended Cornell University in Ithaca, NY on a Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship and earned a degree in mechanical engineering. After he retired from the Navy, Ed took a job as an engineer and sales executive for a wholesale coal company, filling the same positions his father had previously held in the company.

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FEATURE STORY: A Life in Publishing – Business Facilities’ 40th Anniversary

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Ed found a partner and started publishing a series of industrial buyers guides, which he described as “mini-Thomas Registers.” Just as the enterprise began to build up a head of steam, Ed’s partner defected to the actual Thomas Register, leaving Ed with the task of repaying the loans from the buyers guide venture.

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Edgar T. Coene, Group C Founder And Chairman, Dies At 83

FEATURE STORY: A Life in Publishing – Business Facilities’ 40th Anniversary

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