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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  FRANK COLEMAN, of Athens, Ala., Register of the United States Land Office,
Huntsville, is the youngest son of the late Judge Daniel Coleman.

  He was educated at the Southern University, Greensboro, Ala., and the
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. Graduating from the last named
institution, in 1869, he read law with the Hon. Luke Pryor, at Athens, and was
admitted to the bar. He taught school a while; spent some time in the far West,
and was for about one year connected with the editorial corps of the St. Louis
Times. At the instance of Major Henry Heiss, with whom he had done journalistic
work on the St. Louis Times, he came to Nashville, Tenn., and was for five years
one of the editors of the Nashville Banner, a morning daily. His health failing,
in 1875, he retired to his old home at Athens. In November, 1876, he became
editor and half proprietor of the Huntsville (Ala.) Independent, a Democratic
journal. Under his administration, the Independent became quite an influential
paper, and was always fully identified with the greatest interests of its
section of the county.

  Mr. Coleman was four years a member of the State Democratic Executive
Committee, and after the election of President Cleveland, he was strongly
endorsed by the best men of the State for the position to which he was
subsequently appointed and unanimously confirmed. His commission as Register of
the United States Land Office was dated January 20, 1887, and upon taking
possession of the office he severed his connection with the Independent.


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

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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