Biographical Sketch of M. A. Coleman, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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M. A. Coleman, presiding judge of the Franklin County Court, was born
in what is now Lyon Township, Franklin Co., Mo., October 9, 1843, and 
is the son of John G. and Harriet (Smithson) Coleman.  The father was
born in Virginia, in 1816, and learned the tanner's trade in Union,
then the harness or saddle maker's trade.  He then began tilling the
soil and this continued until his death, which occurred in 1885.  He
was the son of Anderson Coleman, also a Virginian, who immigrated to
Missouri at an early date.  The mother of our subject was born in Vir-
ginia.  Her death occurred in 1852.  M. A. Coleman was reared on the
farm, and secured a limited education in the country schools.  He,
being the only surviving child, remained on the farm with his father,
and when about twenty-seven years of age his father gave him the farm
and then lived with his son.  The latter was married in 1868 to Amanda
J. Hargess, a native of New Haven, Franklin Co., Mo., born in 1852, 
and the daughter of James Hargess (deceased).  To this union five 
children have been born, all living.  Mr. Coleman entered public life
in 1882 as district judge of the second district of Franklin Co., Mo.,
and was re-elected in 1884.  Two years later he was elected by the
county as presiding judge of the county court, which honorable posi-
tion he holds at present.

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