Bio of COLEMAN, Hon. Arch (b.1877), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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HON. ARCH COLEMAN - Vol II, pg 555-556
Hon. Arch Coleman, now postmaster of Minneapolis, and one of the recognized
leaders in republican circles of Minnesota, has served as a member of the state
senate and is also prominent in his business connections, being president of the
Reeves Coal Company Yards, Incorporated, at Minneapolis. He was bom in Detroit,
Michigan, May 29, 1877, a son of Silas B. and Rebecca (Backus) Coleman, both of
whom were natives of New York. Removing westward, the father engaged in the
banking business in Detroit, where he settled soon after the Civil war. During
the period of hostilities between the north and the south he was in command of a
gunboat in New Orleans.
To the public school system of his native city Arch Coleman is indebted for the
early educational opportunities which he enjoyed and later he attended the
Chappaqua school in New York. He afterward went abroad and pursued a preparatory
course in Heidelberg, Germany, also studying at Wiesbaden. He was in Europe for
one year at that time and upon his return he entered the Friends School in
Brooklyn, New York, while later he was a student in the Detroit high school. In
1895 his father gave him another opportunity of traveling abroad and he was
absent for several months, enjoying many interesting experiences and adding much
to his general knowledge, for he possesses an observing eye, a retentive memory
and gleaned much valuable information in his travels.
In 1896 Mr. Coleman came to Minneapolis and here entered the employ of the
Pioneer Fuel Company as a clerk. He worked his way upward through all the
various positions of the coal business and in 1909 he engaged in coal jobbing on
his own account. In October of the following year he organized the City Fuel
Company, establishing a retail delivery yard, and of this company he continued
as the president until July. 1921, when he consolidated his interests with those
of the Reeves Coal Company Yards. Incorporated, and of this new organization he
became the president. He has since remained at the head of this corporation,
which today is operating five large yards in the city, the business being one of
the most extensive in Minneapolis. Not a little of the success which has come to
Mr. Coleman is due to the fact that he has always continued in the same line in
which he embarked at the outset of his business career. He has never dissipated
his energies over a broad field, but has continued along a single line, gaining
in knowledge and power in that field, until at length he is at the head of a
very extensive and profitable business.
On the 7th of June, 1899, Mr. Coleman was united in marriage to Miss Annie
Claire Northrop of Merriam Park, Minnesota, and they have become parents of two
children: Arch F. and Ruth. Mr. Coleman is a member of the Minneapolis Athletic
Club, the Minneapolis Golf Club, the Traffic Club and the Calhoun Commercial
Club. He is also identified with the various Masonic bodies, being a Knights
Templar Mason and now filling the office of marshal of Zuhrah Temple of the
Mystic Shrine. He has loyally followed the teachings and high purposes of the
craft, which recognizes the brotherhood of mankind and the obligations thereby
imposed. Mr. Coleman, however, is perhaps most widely known through his
political activities and is a prominent figure in republican circles. He has
been chairman of the Hennepin county republican central committee in charge of
the campaigns for the past four years, and in February. 1919, he was elected
state senator at a special election to fill out the unexpired term of Carl
Wallace, deceased. He has labored untiringly in behalf of the principles in
which he believes and he was one of the framers of the convention bill, which
was passed in the legislative session of 1921. In April, 1922, he was appointed
postmaster of Minneapolis and has recently entered upon the discharge of his
duties in this con nection, to the intense gratification of many of his friends
who recognize that he will be most capable and faithful in this position, as he
has been in the other places of trust, both public and private, that he has
filled.