The subject of this notice, a native of Colfax, Ind., was born September 18, 1851, and is a son of Jacob and Hannah (Little) Coyner, with whom he lived until a youth of eighteen years. He then for a time occupied himself as a teacher, then spent two years in the Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio. Becoming thoroughly interested in educational matters, he continued connected therewith, finally going to Nashville, Tenn., where he became Principal of a ward school, and at the same time prosecuted his studies in Vanderbilt University.

Later Dr. Coyner spent a year in the Homeopathic College at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in the class of 1878, and was subsequently located for a short time in Queen City. Thence he came in 1878 to Peoria, and established an office at the corner of Main and Perry Streets, a half block from his present elegant mansion, which he built in the summer of 1889. Within it he has the finest suite of offices of any physician in the city of Peoria, and fully equipped with all the books and apparatus pertaining to the profession or required by the physician and surgeon.

The residence of Dr. Coyner is a model of architectural beauty, aside from its location, which is one of the finest in the city, and adjacent to which are many other of the beautiful homes therein. The presiding genius of this home, to whom Dr. Coyner was wedded February 10, 1882, was formerly Miss Lucia S. Hotchkiss, a native of Massachusetts and a daughter of Carver and Sarah (Gillette) Hotchkiss of that State. The Doctor is prominent in Masonic circles, and both he and his estimable lady are members in good standing of the Baptist Church. Politics possess little interest for Dr. Coyner, although he usually votes with the Republican party. He stands well socially and professionally, and is highly spoken of as a member of the community more than ordinarily intelligent.

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