From the Encyclopedia Titanica.
He was born in St. Prancas, Middlesex, England, on 27 August 1853 and married twice, with his first wife dying and had eight children with his second one. His family was listed as living at Kentish Town in Middlesex from 1871 to 1891, but he did not live with them, having moved to Canada sometime in the early 1870s before finally ending up in Merrill, Wisconsin (according to family sources).
Mr. Coxon never married in his new home and was listed as a laborer in the 1900 census. By the time of the 1910 census, he was listed as a street popcorn vendor.
Contemporary news sources listed him as a "cripple" and was well-known in his community as "Popcorn Dan."
--Cooter
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