Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Colman, Thomas S 1838 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Thomas S. Colman, farmer, P. O. Wauponsee, is a native of Putnam County, Ill., 
born August 2, 1838, son of John and Mary A. Colman, who moved into Putnam 
County, Ill., from the State of New York, in 1835. His father was born in 
Vermont in 1797 and died in La Salle County May 2, 1849, and his mother in New 
Hampshire, in January, 1806; she died at the residence of her son, in Norman 
Township, Grundy County, July 13, 1881. Our subject was raised and educated 
principally in La Salle County, Ill. He married, November 25, 1864, Miss 
Catharine Nelson, daughter of Miles and Adeline Nelson of New York. She was 
born in Steuben County, N. Y., December 15, 1838, and is the eldest of a 
family of five children. Their family consists of three children - John N., 
born October 1, 1865; Guy A., born September 12, 1869; William T., born August 
22, 1871. Mr. Colman now owns 160 acres of improved farm land in Section 12, 
of Vienna Township, valued at $55 per acre; he resides one half mile south of 
Wauponsee Station. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity; in politics, he 
is a Republican, and has been elected to the offices of his township. He has 
one brother, John T. Colman, living in Norman Township, Grundy County.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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