Biography of Ferdinand Coleman

	This biography is from "Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated
 	compendium of biography, containing a compendium of local biography,
	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1898. Page 320.

	Scan and OCR by Joy Fisher, 1997. This file may be copied for non-profit 
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FERDINAND COLEMAN, one of the prominent citizens and old settlers of 
Moody county, lives in Clare township. He is a native of Orange county, 
New York, and was born April 21, 1829. He lived at home until his 
nineteenth year, when he married Phoebe D. Doty, also a native of Orange 
county, who was born on the 16th of August, 1827. The wedding occurred 
in 1848.  After marriage he settled upon a farm in the vicinity of his 
former home. In 1845 he removed to Green Lake county, Wisconsin, and 
took up a claim upon some wild land there. He improved it and lived 
there until 1885, in that year going to Dakota. He immediately settled 
in Clare township, where he has resided up to the present time. Mr. 
Coleman is a very estimable citizen, and is well known all over his 
township. He is a Republican in politics, and has held a number of local 
offices, both in Dakota and at his former home in Wisconsin. He is a 
member of the Masonic fraternity, lodge No. 147, of Green Lake county, 
Wisconsin, and also of the chapter at Flandreau.

	Mrs. Coleman died January 3, 1894. She was the mother of five 
children: Davis D. and Cassie, deceased; Nathaniel; Mary A., who is now 
the wife of Hon. C. A. Chamberlin, who lives near Flandreau, and whose 
sketch appears in this work; and Thomas.