Age 32. 39 Atherton Street, Roxbury (Boston), MA. Born 7/10/1910, Dublin, Ireland. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Insurance adjuster, New England Power Co., of Boston. Employed at a branch office in Salem, MA. Roomed on Broad Street in Salem during the workweek. Was visiting the club with his 21-year-old companion Miss Carolyn Gilbride, of Swampscott, MA, dead. Remains were identified at Southern Mortuary in Boston by a $25 War Bond found within the inside pocket of his jacket. Was indirectly referred to in a published account written by fire witness Thomas F. Costello, age 30 (Born 6/24/1912. Died 1/30/1956, sudden illness, age 43), of Lowell, MA, a newspaper editor whose wife identified her cousin Miss Gilbride in a Boston funeral parlor early on Monday: "Shortly afterwards the body of the young man with whom Miss Gilbride had gone to the Boston College-Holy Cross football game and then to the Cocoanut Grove was identified" (Lowell Sun, 11/30/1942). To the U.S. in 1919. Was single. Was one of 14 Grove victims from the Hub "neighborhood" of Roxbury. With Miss Gilbride were two of 228 casualties showing "carbon monoxide poisoning" as the primary cause of death on their death certificates, the same count as recorded dead from "burns" (another eight included both causes, while 26 others gave alternate origins or stated simply "trapped in burning building"). Surname was misspelled "Coburn" (with no "l") in some news accounts (correct on his death certificate and on the Boston Committee on Public safety master casualties list). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Eugene J. and Ellen M. (Cruise) Colburn, same Roxbury address. Burial at Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline, MA. One of three casualties interred at Holyhood Cemetery (also patrons John Hope, age 46, and Rodric Prendergast, age 18). Middle name Peter.

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