San Mateo County CA Archives Biographies.....Coleberd, J. W. October 13, 1876 - 
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Author: Author: S. J. Clarke (1928)

J. W. COLEBERD

   Widely recognized as an able and astute lawyer, commanding a large practice 
and rendering effective service as city attorney, no member of the legal 
profession in South San Francisco stands higher in public esteem than does J. W. 
Coleberd, whose offices are in the South San Francisco Bank building. Mr. 
Coleberd was born in Des Moines, Iowa, October 13, 1876, and was given the 
advantage of an unusually thorough education. After completing a course in the 
public schools of Polk county and Des Moines, he attended successively Highland 
Park College and Drake University, at Des Moines; Wooster University, at Wooster, 
Ohio; the University of Berlin, Germany; and the University of Chicago. For a 
time he was engaged in educational work and served as superintendent of schools 
at South Whitley, Indiana, and as principal of the high schools at Marquette, 
Michigan, and Garrett, Indiana. After his graduation from the University of 
Chicago he was admitted to practice law in Indiana. In 1911 Mr. Coleberd came to 
South San Francisco and again engaged in the practice of law, in which he has 
continued to the present time and in which he has gained an enviable reputation 
for his uniform success both as a trial lawyer and as an office counselor. As 
city attorney he has carefully safeguarded the interests of the municipality and 
is regarded as one of the strongest members of the city administration.
    
   Mr. Coleberd was united in marriage, June 18, 1912, to Miss Ada B. Mountz, a 
native of Indiana, and they are the parents of two daughters, Helen and Frances. 
Mr. Coleberd is a member of the Masonic fraternity and has attained the 
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He also belongs to the South San 
Francisco Exchange Club and is a member of the San Mateo county law library 
board. He has shown a most effective interest in all matters affecting the 
general welfare and the progress of his community and is recognized as one of 
the county's ablest and most public-spirited citizens.

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HISTORY
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VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO, ILL. 
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1928

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