Biographies:  William COLEMAN, Rice Lake, Barron Co., WI 

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William  Coleman, retired farmer living at Rice Lake, was born in
Nebraska, and was there reared and educated. He came to Wisconsin in 1880, 
and with Eau Claire as his headquarters, worked for Knapp, Stout & Co. for 
fifteen years. In 1895 he took a homestead in Washburn County, not far from 
this county. He cleared the entire forty acres, put up a good set of 
buildings, and successfully carried on general farming until 1920, when he 
retired and moved to Rice Lake where he purchased a pleasant home.  His wife 
died in 1885 and he married Gertie St. Clair.  The three children in the 
family are: John, Gertrude, now Mrs. Milo Curtis, and Harry.

--Taken from History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
Minneapolis, Minn., March 1, 1922, pg. 180