Biographical Sketch of Henry B. Coleman, Johnson County, Missouri
Columbus Township
>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

HENRY B. COLEMAN,

was born in Johnson county, Missouri, July 27, 1853. His parents were
natives of Virginia.  They moved to Johnson county about the year 1840.
His father, Thomas Coleman, was a graduate of Yale College, and a
graduate of the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.  He married in
Johnson county, about the year 1845, Miss Catherine Tackett.  On the
20th day of June, 1854, he was drowned in attempting to cross Black
Water, at what is called Gooseberry Ford.  Having gone west to visit a
patient, in returning he attempted to swim his horse across the stream,
which had swollen from recent rains, the horse floundered and sank,
dragging his rider with him.  The body of the Doctor was found the next
morning about fifty yards below the ford, clinging to a log.  He left a
widow and four children.  The subject of this sketch was thus left,
early in life, to carve out his own destiny.  He received a liberal
education in the public schools of the state, and afterward went to St.
Louis, and read medicine at the Missouri Medical College.  He graduated
in March, 1878, after which he came back to Columbus, and settled down
to practice his profession.  The Doctor has built up a fine practice by
his skill and perseverance.

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