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Paul Edward Coad
(1889 - 1968)
Nebraska, The Land and the People, Vol. 2. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1931. p. 194.
Paul E. Coad is a member of a family that has been one of the most distinctive in the commercial life of Omaha for nearly half a century. He is a native of that city, and for a number of years has been active in business. He is a member of the Metcalfe Company, real estate and insurance, at 203 South Nineteenth Street, and is also secretary of the Coad Real Estate Company, which was founded by his father.
Paul E. Coad was born in Omaha April 22, 1889. He is a son of the late John F. and Ellen M. (Leahy) Coad. The late John F. Coad, Sr., whose career is more adequately sketched on other pages of this publication, was a native of Ireland, and on coming to America in 1850 located at Nebraska City, and in 1884 he moved to Omaha, where he was prominent in real estate, banking and Democratic politics. He died in Omaha in 1910, at the age of sixty-seven.
Paul E. Coad grew up and received his early education in Omaha and attended college at St. Louis, where he made a great name for himself as an athlete. In 1904 Jack Defoe, the all-American half-back, and Paul Coad participated in the Olympic Games. They were the first Nebraska boys to ever participate in any Olympic Games. After leaving school he spent fifteen years in the West as a rancher. Returning to his native city, he has since been active in the real estate business and is one of the ablest figures in that line in the city.
During the World war he was with the Sixth Nebraska Regiment as a machine gunner, receiving a commission as second lieutenant, and later being promoted to first lieutenant. He was with his command at various camps in the South until the armistice. Mr. Coad is a member of the American Legion and is affiliated with the B. P. O. Elks.
He married at Macon, Georgia, in February, 1918, Mary S. Staver. They have a daughter, Margaret Catherine.
