According to his World War II draft registration card, Coit Lambert Barnum was born February 12, 1894 in Syracuse, Onondaga County, NY. He married Nancy Booth on Christmas night, 12/25/1921 according to a marriage notice in the Oakland Tribune of 12/27/1921. Children: Lambert Coit Barnum born 8/1/1926 in Alameda County, California (CA birth index), married Marcia A. Herald 4/14/1983 Calaveras County (CA marriage index), son Jeffrey Lambert Barnum born 7/23/1987 Tuolumne County, (CA birth index); Anita Carelmina Barnum born 2/26/1930 Alameda County (CA birth index), married Stanley Leonard Swanson 8/18/1952 son of Edward Swanson (Hayward Daily Review of 8/25/1952).
He was born in western New York State.