San Joaquin County
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JERRY COLEMAN
J. COLEMAN, a farmer of
Elliott Township, was born in Columbia County, New York State, July 15, 1834,
one of the thirteen children of John and Annie (Lee) Coleman, both natives of
Ireland; the father died in Nevada, in 1877, at the age of eighty-four years,
and the mother in New York State, in 1846, aged forty-four years. The family
moved from Columbia County, when the subject of this sketch was yet a mere
child, to Schenectady County, where J. Coleman remained until he was twenty
years of age, when he came to California, taking the steamer Northern Star from
New York to the Isthmus, and the Uncle Sam from there to San Francisco, where
he arrived after a voyage of twenty-six days. He started at once for the mines
at Placerville, but continued mining but a short time; then engaged at
blacksmithing, which trade he followed for the next nine years in that town. In
1863 he went to Nevada, where he followed the same occupation until 1880, when
he went to Tombstone, Arizona, thence to San Joaquin County. In 1879 he purchased
the ranch of 160 acres of well-improved land, six and a-half miles from Lockeford, where he now resides. He is principally engaged
in raising stock and grain.
He was married August 2,
1864, to Miss Sarah A. Noel, who was born in Wisconsin, August 17, 1843. They
have two children, namely: Hattie L., born August 21, 1865, the wife of C. W.
McIntire, clerk at the Yosemite House, Stockton; and Jerry, born April 10,
1879.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 456-459. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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