WARREN COUNTY OHIO - BIO: COLEMAN, Harrison Arthur M.D. (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume V, page 240 with photo

        HARRISON ARTHUR COLEMAN, M.D. Since 1911 a resident of new
Philadelphia, Doctor Coleman has earned many distinctions as an able
physician and surgeon and as a popular and progressive citizen, and he held
the rank of major for service as a medical officer during the World war,
being stationed on duty in the Hawaiian Islands.
        Doctor Coleman was born at Springboro, Warren County, Ohio, July
19, 1886, son of Louis F. and Mira (Maltbie) Coleman, who were also born
and reared in Warren County. His grandfather, Asa Coleman, was a native of
the same county, and married Miss Coulson. Mira Maltbie was a daughter of
Arthur and Nancy J. (Moses) Maltbie. In lineage the Colemans are of Welsh
and English and Irish extraction, the Coulsons of English, the Maltbie and
Moses families of old New Jersey stock, probably English. All these
families have been in America since before the Revolutionary war. Doctor
Coleman's father is now past seventy-two years of age, and has given his
active life to educational work.
        The only child of his parents, Harrison Arthur Coleman grew up at
Springboro, graduated from the high school there, and then entered Ohio
Wesleyan University, where he took his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1906. The
Master of Arts degree was awarded him by Ohio Wesleyan in 1910, the same
year that he received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Western Reserve
University at Cleveland. Doctor Coleman in 1911 located at new
Philadelphia. While engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery
his talents have proved most effective as a surgeon. He is a member of the
medical staff of the hospital of New Philadelphia, and is a member of the
Tuscarawas County, Ohio State and American Medical Associations.
        Doctor Coleman was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical
Reserve Corps, and on May 31, 1917, was called to active duty being sent to
the Hawaiian Islands. He reported at Honolulu for garrison duty, and was
stationed at the Schofield barracks from June 5, 1917, until the latter
part of May 1919. He was promoted to captain, and for the last seventeen
months of his service held the rank of major. Doctor Coleman was in the
service for two years, and on getting his honorable discharge returned to
New Philadelphia and resumed private practice. He is a member of the
American Legion, is a Knights Templar Mason, belongs to the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, the Kiwanis Club, the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and a lieutenant colonel in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States
Army. Doctor Coleman has served on the City Council of New Philadelphia,
and is a republican in politics. He is a director in the Canton Brick and
Fireproofing Company.
        In 1912 he married Miss Margaret E. Campbell, a native of Prince
Edward Island, Canada. Their two children are Robert L. and Norman A.


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