Limestone County AlArchives Biographies.....Coleman, Daniel 1801 - 1857
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    DANIEL COLEMAN was born in Caroline County, Va., August 2, 1801, and died at
Athens November 4, 1857. When sixteen years old he left his home to make his way
in the world, the death of his father having reduced the family from affluence
to poverty. He taught school at the Kanawha Salt Works a year, and used the
money thus obtained to graduate at the Transylvania University. He then obtained
employment as a scribe at a court in Frankfort. Ky., and read law while so
engaged under the eye of Judge Bledsoe. In 1819 he came to this State and
located at Mooresville, this county. The following year he was chosen by the
Legislature (through the influence of Hon. Nich. Davis) Judge of the county
court. He was only nineteen years old, but the gravity of his deportment led no
one to question his majority, and he held the office several years. In 1829 he
represented Limestone in the Legislature. In 1835 he was elected by the
Legislature a judge of the circuit court. This dignified and responsible
position he filled for twelve years. How satisfactorily he performed his duties
may be inferred from the compliment paid him in June, 1851, when Governor
Collier selected him to fill a vacancy on the supreme bench. He served till the
following winter, when he declined a candidacy before the Legislature, feeling
that his enfeebled health would not permit him to undergo the labors of the post.

    Judge Coleman left a character for spotless integrity, piety, decorum and
sobriety. As a judge he was dignified, laborious and impartial. In appearance he
was slender and tall, with a light complexion. In manner he was grave to
austerity. He married Miss Peterson of this county, and left several children.

    Of these we have the following data: Rev. James L. Coleman is a graduate of
La Grange College, Ala.; Daniel Coleman is a graduate of Wesleyan College (or
University), Florence. Ala., and afterward of the Law Department of the
University of Virginia: John Hartwell Coleman graduated at Florence with first
honors, and afterward likewise took the Law Course at the University of
Virginia: Richard H. Coleman was attending High School in Virginia when the war
broke out, and he joined the army at about seventeen years of age; Dr. Rutlin
Coleman obtained his collegiate training at the Southern University, Greensboro,
and studied medicine at the University of Nashville, Tenn.

    Judge Coleman was a conspicuous and zealous member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. His wife, a native of South Carolina, was noted for
beauty of face and character. She was a brilliant conversationalist and a noted
hostess. She survived her husband many years, and died at Athens, February 14,
1885.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
CEREAL BELT.


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