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 COLEMAN

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of James and Mary Cole. He was educated in the common schools and entered a print works at Chorley as an engraver of simple designs for calico. In 1819 he sailed with his family to America and settled in Philadeliihia, Pa., where he obtained employment as a wood engraver for a publisher of school books. He afterward went to Steubenville, Ohio, where he acquired some facility in i:)ainting portraits, and was, after the custom of the time, an itinerant por- trait painter. In 1825 he settled in New York city, where his landscapes gained for him public notice. He ^vas one of the founders of the National academy of design and had a picture at its first exhibition in 1826. He spent the years 1829-31 in England in the study of art. He then visited Paris. Marseilles, Florence and Eome, returning in November, 1832. to New York. He made several subsequent trips abroad and exhib- ited at the Royal academy in 1830. In 1836 he was married to Maria Bartow. Among his more famous paintings are a series of five land- scapes entitled. The Course of Empire, first con- ceived in 1833 and completed in 1836: the first picture representing a wilderness at sunrise; the second the pastoral, or partially cultivated state, the day further advanced; the third, noonday in a great and beautiful city; the fourth, a battle, and the burning of the city; and the fifth the ruined and depopulated city at sunset. These were jiurchased by the New York historical society. His other pictures include The Garden of Eden and TJie Eo:pulsion from Eden (1828); Titkuis Goblet (1833); The Voy- aye of Life, in four pictures, representing Child- hood. Youth. Manhood and Old Age (1840); JJAUeyro and U Penseroso (1844); The Cross and the World, and TJie Trial of Failh (1847^8); and many paintings of American scenery. See Life and Works of Tliomas Cole, X.A., by the Rev. Louis H. Noble. He died near Catskill.N.Y., Feb 11,1848. COLEMAN, Ann Mary Butler (Crittenden), author, was born in Russellville, Ky.. May •">, 1813; daughter of John Jordan and Sallie O. (Lee) Crittenden; gi-anddaughter of John Crit- tenden and of John Lee, both distinguished Revo- lutionar\- soldiers, and through her father a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson. She was mar- ried in 1830 to Chapman Coleman, U.S. marshal for Kentucky under President John Quincj' Adams. Upon the death of l;er husband and the subsequent marriage of her eldest daughter she took her younger children to Europe, where she devoted herself to travel and the study of European literature and the languages. On her return to America she engaged in literary work and translated from the German and French for American publishers. She published in 1864 Life and Letters of John J. Crittenden, accepted as

the authorized life of the statesman. She died at Louisville. Ky.. Feb. 13, 1891.

COLEMAN, Charles, Caryll, painter, was- born in Buff'alo, N.Y., in 1840. He was educated in the public schools of Buffalo and in 1859 went to Europe, where for two years he studied in France and Italy. In 1861 he returned to the United States and served out a three years" enlist- ment in the L'liion army. He returned to Europe in 1866 and opened a studio in Rome. He was elected a member of the London art club, and in 1881 associate of the National academy of design, New York city. His more important pictures include Literior of Chapel adjoininy Sala del Cambria at Peruyia; The Bronze Horse of St. Mark's, Venice (1877); The Troidxidour, The Youny Monk, and Xurembery Toners, exhibited at Phila- delphia at the Centennial in 1876; Decorative Panel at the Paris Exposition of 1878; Venice, Ancient and Modern (1880); Pemote Quarter of Paris^ in 1S7S (1881); Cajm Interior, Capri Reapers and Head ,f Capri Girl (1886).

COLEMAN, Hamilton Dudley, representa- tive, was born in New Orleans, La., May 12. 1845; son of Willis Pearson and Ann Elizabeth (Head) Coleman; grandson of Leonard and Eunice (Pierson) Koolman and of Edmund Linguin and Charlotte Gordon (Puckett) Head; great-grand- .son of John and Ann ( Jolmson ) Puckett and of Jacob Koolman, who immigrated to America about 1750 and settled in Philadelphia; and great^ grandson of Willis and Nancey (Ford) Jolinson of South Carolina. Willis Johnson was a soldier in Marion's army. Hamilton was educated in the New Orleans high school, leaving school in 1862, and served actively over three years in Virginia in the Washington artil- lery. After the surrender of Lee"s army he returned to New Orleans where he engaged in the manufacture of corn mills and machineiy. He was vice-pi'esident and president of the Brush electric light company, of the Mexican exchange in New Orleans and of the New Orleans chamber of commerce, and vice-president of the National board of trade. He was a charter member and the largest individual stockholder of the New Orleans world's exposition. 1884. He was a Re- publican representative from the 2d district of Louisiana in the 51st congress, 1889-91. He was married in 1870 to Jessica Prague, and they had three sons and one daughter.

COLEMAN, Leighton, second P. E. bishop of Delaware and 146th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Maj- 3, 1837; son of the Rev. John and Louisa Margaretta (Thomas) Coleman; and grandson of John and Elizabeth Coleman. His father was rector of Trinity' church, Philadelphia, and editor