Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Colman, John N 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Colman, John N. - The Hickory Grove Farm, of Mazon Township, is known far and 
wide for the excellence of its product, its horses and other stock commanding 
the highest prices. Its owner, John Colman, understands farming in all of its 
details and has developed into one of the leading agriculturists of Grundy 
County. He was born in Vienna Township October 1, 1865, a son of Thomas and 
Catherine (Nelson) Colman of Vienna Township.

John Colman was reared in his native township, where he attended the district 
schools and gave his father a son's service on the farm until he was twenty 
years old, with the exception of two winters spent at the Dixon school. At 
that age he commenced working for Dr. Elliott in his drug store at Verona, and 
for a year received $10 per month for his labor. Realizing that there was much 
more to be made at farming, he sensibly left the drug store and engaged in 
agricultural pursuits until 1895, when he was able to buy his present 240-acre 
farm in Mazon Township, on which he raises horses, hogs and cattle. He is a 
stockholder in the Farmers Elevator at Mazon and also the Grundy County Fair 
Association.

On September 12, 1888, Mr. Colman married Mary C. Stoner of Vienna Township, 
who was born December 14, 1867, and they have had two children: Howard, born 
September 18, 1891, and Clarence, born June 19, 1893, both of whom are at 
home. Mrs. Colman is a daughter of Jacob and Caroline (Nance) Stoner, the 
former of whom was from Pennsylvania, but became a farmer in Vienna Township, 
where his death occurred in 1883, and was survived by his widow until 1893.  
They had seven children: Dealton, who is deceased; Charles, who lives in Iowa; 
Ervin, who lives in Minnesota; Luella Satterly, who lives in Missouri; Ulysses 
S., who lives in Iowa; Mrs. Colman, and Sadie, who is living at Streator, Ill. 
Mr. Colman is a Knight Templar, Mason, and a Republican, politically; has 
served on the school board for fourteen years, and is a representative man in 
every respect. Mrs. Colman's grandfather, Eaton Nance, was in the War of 
1812.  He and his wife died in Missouri at the age of eighty-six years.

Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, 1914, pages 791-792

Additional Comments:
Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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