Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Coleman, Waterman 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

WATERMAN COLMAN, a fruit-raiser of Yolo County, is a son of Amiel and Elizabeth
D. Colman, natives of Scituate, Massachusetts. He was born and educated in that
town, and in 1876 came to California by rail, first locating in Woodland. He was
soon employed by the United States Government as postal clerk, as one of the
first on the road. After operating in that capacity nine years and a half, he
purchased the lot of ten acres where he now resides and raises some of the
finest fruit in the county.

  He married Miss Loring, who was born in the State of Maine, February 12, 1824,
and they have one son, Edwin W.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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