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date for lieutenant-governor. He is now connected with the United States mint in New Orleans, La. Coleman, James J., statesman, cabinet officer. He was the first secretary of agriculture.

Coleman, James Melville, educator, auwas born Dec. 2, 1859, near Ogdensburg, N.Y. Since 1892 he has filled the Sterrett chair of history and political philosophy in the Geneva college of Beaver Falls, Pa. He is the author of Social Ethics. Coleman, John, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 11, 1803, in Baltimore, Md. For thor,

many

years he was the editor of the Banner of the Cross, of Philadelphia, Pa. He was the author of Faber's Difficulties of Ro-

He

manism; and The Episcopal Manual. died Sept. 16, 1869, in St. Louis, Mo.

Coleman, Mrs. Kathleen Blake, journalist, was born May 16, 1864, in Ireland. She was the first woman war correspondent duly accredited in the world, going with United States troops to Tampa and Cuba. She is the author of To London for the Jubi-

author,

lee.

Coleman, Leighton, clergyman, bishop, auwas born May 3, 1837, in Philadelphia,

thor,

Pa.

He was

rector in several parishes;

and

in

1888 was consecrated protestant episcopal bishop of Delaware. In 1896 he founded the Sisterhood of All Angels,

whose

house

is

ton,

Del.

in

mother Wilming-

He

is

also

chaplain-general of the society of the war of 1813; and chaplain of the Delaware state society of the Cincinnati. He was the author of The Church in America, a history of the American episcopal church. He died Dec. 14, 1907, in Wilmington, Del. Coleman, Lewis Miner, soldier, educator, was born Feb. 3, 1827, in Hanover county, Va. At the beginning of the civil war he raised an artillerj' company for the confederate service; became its captain; and in

1862 was appointed major of artillery.

He

died in March, 1863.

Coleman, Lucy Newhall, educator, reformwas born July 26, 1817, in Sturbridge, Mass. Under the auspices of the New York er,

aid society, she became president of the colored schools in the District of Columbia.

Coleman, Lyman, clergyman, author, was born June 14, 1796, in Middlefield, Mass. He was a classical professor at Lafayette college in 1861-82. He was the author of Ancient Christianity Exemplified; Prelacy and Ritualism; The Apostolical and Primitive Church; Historical Geography of the Bible; Text-Book and Atlas of Bible Geography and Genealogy of the Lyman Family. He died March 16, 1882, in Easton, Pa.

Coleman, Nicholas D., congressman, was born in 1800 in Harrison county, Ky. In 1825 he was elected to the Kentucky state legislature; and in 1829-31 he was a representative to the twenty-first congress. He was postmaster of Vicksburg in 1841-44. He was for a time president of the South-

em

pacific railroad. in Vicksburg, Ky.

He

died in

May,

1874,

Coleman, Obed M., inventor, was born Jan. 23, 1817, in Barnstable, Mass. He to Saratoga in 1842 ;and invented

removed

improvements in the accordion. He also began here to construct his seolian attachment to the piano forte, which gave him high rank among inventors. He sold his patent for one hundred thousand dollars in this country; and for about ten thousand dollars in England. He died April 5, 1845, in Saratoga. Coleman, Richard B., soldier, merchant, lawyer, was born Aug. 8, 1846, in Springfield, Mo. In 1861 he enlisted in the united confederate veterans; and served until 1865. He was mayor of Denton, Texas; and since 1890 has practiced law. Since 1895 he has been major-general of the Indiana territory division of the confederate united veterans. Coleman, Thomas Davies, physician, surgeon, author.'was born Jan. 13, 1865, in Augusta, Ga. In 1881 he graduated from Richmond academy then in 1885 graduated from

the university of Kentucky at Lexington with the degree of A.

B.;.and in 1885-88 he took a post-graduate course

in

science

at

Johns Hopkins, university of Baltimore, serving also as assistant in physiology in that institution in 1887-88.

He then entered the medical department of the university of the City of New York, graduating with the degree of M.D. Since 1890 he has practiced his profession in Augusta, Ga. and in 1893 became professor of physiology in the medical department of the university of Georgia. He originated and developed the laboratory of histology and pathology in that institution; in 1900-02 was professor of medicine; and since 1902 has filled the senior chair of the principles and practice of medicine in the medical school of Georgia, a department of the state university. In 1906 he was elected chairman of the medical section of the American medical association; and is also director of the national association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis. He is president of Pine Heights sanatorium in North Augusta, S.C; and for thirteen vears was a member of the board of health of Augusta, Ga., of which he was secretary and later president. In 1907 he was elected president of the American climatologioal association. He is the author of numerous medical Monographs; and has contributed.