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REMOTE STORAGEMEMOIRS OF LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN
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GENEALOGICAL NOTES

BY

CHRISTOPHER BUSH COLEMAN

Privately printed
Spkingfield, Illinois
1920JB

REMOTE STORAGE

LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.MEMOIRS OF LOUIS HARBISON COLEMAN.

Louis Harbison Coleman was oiie of those
men who bind two and even three generations
together, not only through length of days, but by
reason of association, and by habit of mind. He
was an eldest son, with whom brothers and sisters
frequently took counsel. His business activities
spanned nearly sixty years, and he was as en-
ergetic at the last as at the beginning. In senti-
ment and ideas he belonged to a type now fast
disappearing, but he never attempted to enforce
the life of an earlier age upon those born in a
later day. In the Logan family into which he
married he was for many years the only survivor
of his generation; he lived at the old homestead
and delighted in family gatherings, rich alike in
the memories of the past, the life of the present,
and the hope of the future.

Vivid impressions of him will long be recalled
as he sat at the head of the lengthened table at
the dinners which on Sundays and holidays
brought together the Coleman and the Hay fam-
ilies. In later years slightly bowed, his fine face
in repose bearing some resemblance to the pic-
tures of Dante, sad and retrospective, he did not
talk much, but his every glance showed quiet and2

LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

deep satisfaction; how much his influence per-
meated these occasions, how far the fine flavor
of his personality entered into the enjoyment of
others, and how deeply his picture was sinking
into our memories we did not till later realize.
Himself always temperate and even abstemious,
he urged others on to repletion, till at last no one
could eat more. Then through the afternoon, in
groups or all together, came talk of crops and
cattle, people and politics, hard times and pros-
pects of prosperity, not unmixed with bantering
back and forth, until the company broke up.

His seventy-fifth birthday, the last he was
thus to enjoy, was a most happy celebration.
There were present at Logan Place, Stuart and
Kate Brown and Jane, Logan and Lucy Hay,
Logan Coleman, Chris Coleman with Constance,
Mary Coleman Morrison, Louis and Nan Coleman
with Nancy and Jennie Logan and John, Mrs.
Mary H. Wood, Lucy Williams, and perhaps
others. After dinner there were letters from
those unable to come, and poems by Lucy Wil-
liams and her mother. In the benign afterglow
of this family gathering Mr. Coleman wrote and
re-wrote, striving for exact expression, his own
response to the occasion. He left it among his
papers eleven months after, breathing the serenity
of one whose long journey had taken him above
the clouds:LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

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'' Three quarters of a century! What a long
stretch of time when measured by the calendar,
and yet how short when illumined by the unnum-
bered blessings that have been bestowed upon
me. Three quarters of a century, blessed with a
Christian parentage at the threshold of life!
Three quarters of a century, twenty-five years of
which have been hallowed by a companion of
sacred memory, whose very parents were a bene-
diction to my life! Three quarters of a century—
how luminous when cheered by the companionship
of three sons and a daughter, whose deportment
has never cast a shadow across my threshold but
who have ever made my home a home of good
cheer. Three quarters of a century! Ah, indeed it
has been shortened by brothers and sisters and
faithful friends, whose loving hearts and helping
hands have been a great contribution to this privi-
leged life of mine, so full of blessing as to fill every
pore of my heart with loving gratitude. To one
and all who have thus contributed perpetual
sunshine to my life, I lift my voice for great
length of days and abounding peace and pros-
perity, and I shall ever pray for the showering
of God's richest blessing upon them all. Three
quarters of a century, well worth the living, for
the family reunion commemorative of it, when
three generations mingle and are blended into
one, and where family ties are tightened and the
cords of love and friendship more closely drawn."

This brief paragraph is the key to his life,
it is his true autobiography. He looked on every
experience,—and bitter as well as pleasant ex-4

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periences came to him,—as the expression of the
goodness of a loving and omnipotent Providence;
and he sought as full a share for others as possible
in the happiness of life. Kindly by nature, his
conception of Christianity and the intensity of
his religious purpose developed in him a per-
vasive, active benevolence, which in business and
in social intercourse sometimes seemed an amiable
weakness, but which as a philosophy of life ap-
proached the sublimity of the Sermon on the
Mount. He was full of kindly sentiment; his
words and his acts breathed the same quality of
sweetness as did the flowers he loved. The more
notable this as he was a man of strong traits of
character, strong in his prejudices, strict in his
morality, upright as an oak. Unlike many of his
generation and his training, his conduct was
invariably molded by personal good will, and
there was always a generous tolerance in his
judgments. To this those who are so well spoken
of in the legacy of his seventy-fifth birthday must
gratefully bear witness.

Three quarters of a century well lived, we
may truthfully add. A life altogether free from
the slightest deviation from acknowledged duty,
free from the least questionable of personal
indulgences, free even from the suggestion and
the temptation of wrong-doing. A life with a task
always immediately before it, and with an intense,LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

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unwearied application to every task. A life of
ceaseless industry, of undiscouraged interest not
only in the daily activities of business, but in the
age-long service of religiously conceived ideals.

It was remarkable how directly, how com-
pletely, how unswervingly this man held himself
to what he considered the true values of life. To
him the home was the center and soul of human
existence, and no one could have devoted himself
more unreservedly to its service as son, as hus-
band and as father. Logan Place was to him the
homestead of hallowed associations, and he took
the greatest pride in its gardens, its trees and its
gently sloping lawn; he arose early to work on
it, he spared no pains in its improvement; though
he liked to travel, he seldom stayed away from
home longer than absolutely necessary and no
summer resort nor winter resort ever appealed
to him. He had a large measure of local pride,
and the praise of Springfield was ever on his
lips; for the promotion of its welfare no canvass
was too tiring, no appeal for funds too burden-
some. Throughout his life he sincerely believed
that the prosperity of his city and his country
was wrapped up in the success of the Republican
party, and without any thought of personal profit
or office-holding he talked and labored incessantly
for its triumph. Success in business was to him
a significant thing, a worthy aim and one almost6

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necessary to self-respect; the accumulation of
property he looked upon as a test of success, and
he attached even more importance to the promo-
tion of the interests of customers and clients, to
the service of the community, and to the main-
tenance, standing, and opportunities of one's
family. So to his business he devoted himself
unsparingly; he took no thought of his time nor
his convenience, and toiled tirelessly to the last,
often thirteen and fourteen hours a day. He
esteemed the church the most valuable, the great-
est institution in the world; to him it was even
more than that—a greater Jacob's ladder let
down from heaven to earth; and inclination and
sense of duty, happily uniting, made him more
than faithful to all the obligations of membership
in it. It was second only to his family in his
affections; he gave to it generously of his time
and his means; he took part in all of its meetings
and in all of its work.

In devotion to these interests his life was
spent, simply and unostentatiously, with a single-
ness of mind and a unity of purpose which left
no room for doubts and inner conflicts or for
dissipation of energy. He did not always have
an easy time nor were all of his undertakings
successful; but this never embittered him, it
rather added to his native unselfishness and saved
him from any trace of complacency. His faith,LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

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his energy, his goodness never failed. Deservedly
he finally attained the serenity he so happily felt
as he looked back upon three quarters of a
century.

"As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form,
Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the
storm;

Though round its breast the rolling clouds are
spread,

Eternal sunshine settles on its head."

Like many others whose lives have been
identified with Central Illinois, Louis Harrison
Coleman came of Kentucky stock. His paternal
grandparents, James Ormsby and Lucy Hawkins
Coleman, moved to that state in its early days
from Virginia. His father, Hardin Hawkins
Coleman, was a strong Union man when Kentucky
was a border state in the Civil War. His maternal
grandfather was William Hopper, a wheelwright
and tanner in the same state, a Whig and a disciple
of Alexander Campbell; he finally liberated his
slaves and moved to Warren County, Illinois,
where he became a farmer and introduced pro-
gressive methods of agriculture. His maternal
grandmother was Edith Harrison, a relative of
President William Henry Harrison. His mother,
Barbara Anne Hopper, was the first wife of
Hardin Hawkins Coleman. Of their union Louis8

LOUIS HARBISON COLEMAN.

Harbison Coleman was born in Hopkinsville,
Kentucky, September 2nd, 1842, the second child
and the oldest son.

He received his early education in private
schools in Hopkinsville, where he formed the
beautiful handwriting which he possessed all his
life. He spent the years from 1853 to 1857 on
his maternal grandfather's farm in Illinois; at-
tended Abingdon College parts of two terms, and
Bethany College (in West Virginia), then the
leading institution of learning of the Christian
churches, the fall and winter terms of 1860-1861,
He early became a member of the Christian
church and had some leanings toward the min-
istry, but never entered it. When the work of
Bethany College was interrupted by the war he
returned to Hopkinsville where he helped in the
store of his uncle, Mr. Hopper, till the early
spring of 1865. The Civil War presented to his
family in Kentucky, as it did to his future wife's
family in Illinois, not so much a great cause as
a great, and perhaps preventible, catastrophe.
He himself, though strong in his sympathies for
the Union and without a trace of cowardice, was
always thoroughly pacifist in principle, and could
never conceive of himself as taking human life
even in battle. Accordingly, while giving the
national government his full allegiance, he did:''-=V>Cu



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not enter the army, but continued Ms work as a
civilian through the war.

In 1865 he went to Bloomington, Illinois,
where he joined W. T. Wood, husband of his
older sister, Mary, in the dry goods business.

On October 4th, 1866, he married Jenny
Bush Logan, daughter of Judge Stephen T. Logan
of Springfield, whom he had come to know through
a mutual friend in the college which Miss Logan
had attended in Kentucky.

Jenny Bush Logan was born at the Logan
homestead in Springfield, Illinois, February 19th,
1843. In the private schools of Springfield, in
Williams Female Academy in Kentucky, and in
Monticello Seminary at Godfrey, Illinois, she
received the best education possible at the time,
acquiring, and developing in later life, an unusual
interest in literature and art. She early became
and continued to be all her life, an active and
devout member of the Christian Church. Her
father, Judge Logan, was one of the ablest law-
yers of Illinois and was the senior partner of
Abraham Lincoln in their law firm at Springfield,
1841-1843. Her sister Sally, Mrs. Ward H.
Lamon, lived at Washington during Lincoln's
administration, and Jenny Logan spent the
winters with her, enjoying the society, and shar-
ing in the excitement of the Capital during the10

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Civil War. This doubtless contributed to her
marked breadth of vision and to her intense
ambition later to give her children all possible
advantages of education and of travel. She
inherited many of her father's characteristics,
among them notable intellectual keenness and
sound judgment. She was extraordinarily devoted
to him, and after her marriage she and her hus-
band made Logan Place their home, and both of
them made the comfort and happiness of Judge
and Mrs. Logan their first object.

Mrs. Logan had been an invalid for years.
She died on February 24th, 1868. The care of
the whole household had devolved upon her
daughter, Jenny, some time before this, for both
of the older daughters had their own establish-
ments. With redoubled solicitude and affection,
if possible, Mrs. Coleman watched over her
father, who lived to enjoy for some years the
presence of her two eldest sons; he died in his
eighty-first year, on July 17th, 1880. After the
death of the oldest Logan sister, Mary Logan Hay,
Mr. Hay and his two children lived at Logan Place
for eight years, 1874-1882. Mrs. Lamon made
long visits, and the family of the youngest sister,
Kate Logan Littler, lived in the next square, so
that the whole group was held closely together.
To her nephews and niece Mrs. Coleman became
a second mother, not only looking after theLOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

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material needs of their childhood and youth, but
instilling in them the highest standards of life
and conduct, and helping them in every possible
way. She tutored her nephew, Stephen Littler,
in Latin and Greek, herself learning the latter
the while. Upon her own children and upon this
larger family she spent her rich personality.
Though suffering frequently from neuralgia and
intense nervous headaches she never spared her-
self, but assumed and more than fulfilled the
most varied responsibilities.

Her home was a center of hospitality, fre-
quently on a wholesale scale; conventions and
other gatherings sometimes found a score and
more guests stowed away in the rambling addi-
tions made from time to time to the original
four-room, brick house bought by Judge Logan
when he came to Springfield in 1833. Mrs. Cole-
man's personality dominated the whole house,
positive, yet fine and sensitive, commanding in
power in spite of her small stature. In outlook
and in thought she was in many respects far
ahead of her time and her environment. Intoler-
ant of inefficiency, with unusual capacity for
affairs, she was never satisfied with anything but
the best. Careless of style, she cherished strict
standards of conduct and always manifested a
fine sense of good form. She was passionately
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tunity. For those who remember her anxiety and
worry during the absence of any of her family
there is a world of significance in her sending
her two oldest sons with her brother-in-law,
Stephen Coleman, on a long trip through Colorado
and California when they were respectively
thirteen and eleven years old.

Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Coleman; Logan, May 25th, 1873; Christopher
Bush, April 24th, 1875; Mary Logan, February
18th, 1880; and Louis Garfield, August 6th, 1881.
For some years Mrs, Coleman employed a nurse,
known to the children as "Gebo"; she was the
most faithful soul that ever lived, and waited till
her youngest charge was out of babyhood before
fulfilling her long cherished dream of entering a
convent. But the mother had the children with
her constantly. For them and for her husband
she was always knitting and planning. It was a
familiar sight in Springfield in the early eighties,
the old family carriage with barred sides and
doors, the children behind, Mrs. Coleman in front
knitting and waiting for Mr. Coleman. When
he came, and they drove home, they all found
endless satisfaction in Logan Place with its large
yard and pasture, its staid family horse, its cows
and its pony. But the center of every pictureLOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

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was the mother who was always thinking of her
children, and looking toward their future.

In May, 1868, Mr. Coleman formed a partner-
ship with Major George M. Brown in the dry
goods business, with a capital stock of $50,000.
He afterwards bought out his partner and con-
tinued the business alone at No. 20 South Sixth
Street, on the east side of the Public Square. In
mercantile, as in other work he was energetic,
punctual and painstaking, and he succeeded in
increasing the business of the store from $75,000
in 1868-9 to $136,000 in 1881. In May of the
latter year he sold the store to Eeisch and Thoma
and retired from the dry goods business. He did
so partly on account of his health, partly on
account of his reluctance to leave his wife alone,
with their four small children, in the big, isolated
house at Logan Place, and partly on account of
the demands made upon his time by the farm lands
left to the family by Judge Logan.

He was always intensely interested both in
the ordinary operations of farming, including the
maintenance of fair, kindly and helpful relations
with his tenants, and in the introduction of im-
provements and progressive methods of cultiva-
tion. He was one of the first landowners to
introduce tiling in Central Illinois, beginning on
a large scale as early as 1873. He was always14

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prone to believe in the presence or immanence of
hard times, but lie held firmly to the assurance
of the rise in value of lands and of farm products,
and occasionally he became so confident in matters
which were really of a speculative nature as to
regard probabilities as facts. He became inter-
ested in purported improvements made in agricul-
tural implements by Charles W. Post of Spring-
field, and in 1882 joined with him and Wilson
Reed in the partnership of Coleman, Post and
Reed under the name of The Illinois Agricultural
Implement Company. They built a factory at
Tenth Street and South Grand Avenue, but the
plows they made did not work well and the enter-
prise was abandoned in 1884 with considerable
losses, which were borne by Mr. Coleman and Mr.
Reed. The plant was afterwards utilized by the
Sattley Manufacturing Company, which later
merged with the Racine Plow Company. In after
years the inventive ability of Mr. Post found a
luckier issue and created a fortune for him in the
manufacture of Postum Cereal and of prepared
foods at Battle Creek, Michigan.

During the next eighteen years Mr. Coleman
engaged in no regular business of his own, but
besides looking after farm interests he put more
or less time and money into various ventures.
About 1886 with Colonel Jonathan Merriam,
B. R. Hieronymous and D. W. Smith he promotedLOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

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the organization of the Illinois National Bank,
in which he continued his interest till his death,
and of which he was a director for twenty years.
He invested in lots in Kansas City, Missouri, at
the time when that region was enjoying a
phenomenal boom. The boom collapsed shortly
after, but before his death the gradual increase
in value of the lots retained made up a large part
of his losses. He helped for a while in an attempt
to develop a machine for the manufacture of coal
briquettes, but withdrew when the experimental
model failed to operate.

He was busy throughout his life with philan-
thropic enterprises of a public or quasi public
character and, especially during the years when
he had no regular occupation, spent much of his
time in this way. In fact he practically made
various public and semi-public movements a part
of his regular work. With them, and with the
care of his children, especially after Mrs. Cole-
mail's death in 1891, he was occupied as much as
he could have been in any business. As early as
1881, with Colonel N. B. Wiggins, he promoted a
discussion of methods for improving the city's
water supply. This led to the sinking of a fifty
foot well, and later to the building of aqueducts
which gave an abundant supply for twenty years.
He helped organize the Citizens' Association, of
which he became secretary-treasurer, and which16

LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

brought about the paving of the streets of Spring-
field, up to that time left free to revert alternately
to dust and mud. He served a term on the board of
managers of Oak Ridge Cemetery. The city
limits, on North Grand Avenue, were then some
distance south of the entrance to the cemetery,
and the road intervening came under no jurisdic-
tion capable of enforcing paving. It was chiefly
Mr. Coleman who by endless conferences and
canvasses secured an appropriation of some $800
and subscriptions of about $7,500 with which a
brick pavement was put down. He was a mem-
ber of the school board two terms, and late in
life a member of the county board of supervisors
one term. For four years he was a member of
the Sangamon County Fair Association, and for
a while the County Fair was his chief interest.
He contributed much toward making the fair one
of the largest and best of its kind in the country,
and toward securing the permanent location of
the State Fair upon the County Fair Grounds.
After the local fair thus gave way to a great State
institution, he followed the development of the
latter with great pride and enthusiasm. Among
other things he was instrumental in securing the
establishment of the department of domestic
science, later put in the Woman's Building.

He was a member of the Board of Trustees
of Eureka College, the college of the Disciples inLOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

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Illinois, for about twenty-five years. When the
Young Men's Christian Association of Springfield
undertook the erection of a new building in
1907-1908 he was an active member of the build-
ing committee.

The institution, however, that was nearest
his heart was the church of which he was a mem-
ber from the time of his moving to Springfield.
At that time the congregation worshiped in a small
brick building on Sixth Street near Jefferson
Street. It later put up a larger brick structure
at the northwest corner of Fifth and Jackson
Streets, dedicated February 1st, 1882. In 1909
began a campaign for more modern and preten-
tious quarters, out of which came the handsome
stone building at Sixth and Cook Streets. In
each of these houses of worship at nearly all
meetings, Mr. Coleman was a familiar figure, as
he was an active leader in the erection of the last
two of them. A sense of duty led him to regular
attendance, but he also thoroughly loved the
services, and the very buildings. Almost from
the first he was a deacon, for perhaps the last
thirty years of his life an elder, and for a long
time a member of the board of trustees, constantly
busy with the finances and the management of
the church. No less than fifteen different pastors
came and went, and the selection of a new pastor
involved long search with visits and much cor-18

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respondence, of which Mr. Coleman bore a large
part. Each minister in turn found him a kindly,
hospitable and active supporter. But unfor-
tunately changes of ministry were sometimes at-
tended, if not caused, by dissensions, and other
storm centers occasionally developed. On such
occasions his even temper, common sense and
conciliatoriness prevented antagonisms from
arising or helped to smooth them out when they
had already become serious. Of such surely it
was said, "Blessed are the peace-makers, for
they shall be called the children of God.'' Besides
being a faithful officer of the First Christian
Church he effectively aided in the organization
and building up of the West Side Christian Church
in 1902, and the Stuart Street Christian Church
in 1905.

He regularly took part in the prayer meeting
and often officiated at the communion table. His
talks and his prayers, couched perhaps in some-
what stereotyped phrases, always expressed un-
wavering faith and good will. He accepted, with-
out questionings, the Bible and the ideas generally
prevalent among the Disciples, but he was broad
and tolerant in his attitude toward those who
differed from him. For years his Sunday after-
noons, aside from family hospitalities, meetings
of the official board of the church, or a drive in
the country, were begun with the reading of theLOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

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Christian Standard and closed with a nap. After
the Standard became too controversial to be
peaceful reading he was more or less at a loss
for literature, but passed his Sunday afternoons
and an occasional evening with various less reac-
tionary periodicals. These and the daily news-
papers constituted his reading. Books, though
he sometimes attempted one, never interested
him. Amusements he never felt the need of; the
theater, fiction, secular music and games, were to
him closed doors, meaningless and profitless;
though he was not so austere as others of his
faith in condemning them. Beyond business and
political discussion, his intellectual life and his
spiritual resources were wholly within the church.
Aside from these, silence and repose were suf-
ficient. In many respects the church itself, in
details, was a burden, especially its finances, for
he felt a keen responsibility in its often heavy
indebtedness and thought and spoke of it fre-
quently, but from its teachings and observances
he derived undisturbed hope, peace, courage and
satisfaction.

While his mind in its more purely intellectual
processes was absorbed in business and in prac-
tical projects, his strong emotional nature marked
him from youth as a man of profound sentiment.
This expressed itself more freely when he wrote
than in conversation. Perhaps the fathomless20

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reserve which characterized the whole Logan
family had its effect upon him also. But he wrote
frequently to his children when they were not in
Springfield; long, beautifully written epistles, full
of sentiment and affection—as well as of exhorta-
tions to economy. The same quality pervaded his
letters to his older grandchildren and to other
relatives, and the few occasions of public utterance
for which he wrote out his remarks. In his daily
life, family, friends and flowers constituted a sort
of trinity. In summer he liked to walk and work
about his large flower beds, and there was scarcely
a morning when other members of the family and
guests did not find at their breakfast-plate flowers
which he had picked before any one else in the
house was up. He was hospitable in the true
Kentucky style. How frequently he brought
others out on hot Sunday afternoons to enjoy
refreshment under the trees! Gardening was his
one avocation, and he raised endless rows of
sweet corn and celery. Not only did he enjoy
them immensely himself and bestow them in super-
abundance upon his guests, but he was always
taking choice specimens of his skill to friends and
business associates.

Doubtless Mr. Coleman's lack of avocations,
aside from gardening, and of abstract intellectual
interests came naturally not only from his dispo-
sition for incessant activity but from the circum-LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

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stances of his day and generation. His ideas and
habits became fixed in times and places in which,
cultural and intellectual interests were subor-
dinated to material progress. Development of the
natural resources of the country was the order
of the day. Kentucky and Central Illinois were
busy with the production of crops, cattle and
hogs, rather than of poets and philosophers. Men
raised corn, they ate corn, they talked corn, they
thought corn. Idealism was confined almost en-
tirely to the thought of a distant heaven which
was the goal of the church. The earth was purely
material, religion was conceived as purely spir-
itual. Many devoted themselves entirely to the
former; some who devoted themselves to both
kept them quite distinct. The notable thing about
Mr. Coleman was that he devoted himself to both
with the persistence and intensity of purpose
which was one of his chief characteristics; and
his whole life was a manifestation of religious
faith and kindness of heart.

The greatest sorrow of life came to him on
May 19th, 1891, when Mrs. Coleman, after a severe
attack of influenza culminating in days of semi-
consciousness, sank into the stillness of death.
To her four children, aged about eighteen, sixteen,
eleven and ten, her death was an irreparable loss;
and knowledge of this added to his own poignant
grief. His sense of personal loss was intense22

LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

beyond all expression. Attracted as he had been
by the picture of Jenny Logan long before he
met her, the twenty-five years that had passed
since their marriage had brought to both of them
increasingly profound affection. Her death left
him lonely ever after, for he lived largely within
his own family, and while he had many friends
none were really intimate. Though mitigated by
the consolation of religion and by firm belief in
a future life, solitude was henceforth his portion,
and he became ever lonelier as the years went by.
His daughter, Mary, developed early into mistress
of the house and a source of great comfort and
pride, but even his affection and care for his
children was a reminder of his loss.

For about eleven years after this Mr. Cole-
man's time was occupied chiefly with family
affairs and various benevolent and public enter-
prises. Then, when he was already near sixty,
came the thing which made him a really conspic-
uous figure in the city of Springfield and won a
unique regard for him among all classes of people.
In his sixteen years as a merchant he had made
a living and saved a modest capital. This he
had lost in his industrial and real estate ventures.
He had worked hard at everything he had under-
taken; he had brought his children, the older to
the age of independence, and the younger wellLOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

23

toward the completion of their education; he had
promoted many public improvements. He entered
upon old age a respected and useful citizen of the
community, but well aware that he had not himself
accumulated property for his family, and that he
was looked upon as one who had not achieved
success in the business world. He himself, also,
attached a justly high value to honorable business
and professional success, and he was not satisfied
to rest upon his earlier efforts. His health and
energy were unabated, and his time was not re-
quired now for his family. So at about three-score
he took up a new career.

With a high character for integrity which
gave him initial credit, but without personal cap-
ital, in limited quarters, and in a tentative way,
he started a small real estate and loan business
in the Illinois National Bank Building. His wide
acquaintance, his geniality, his reputation for
both honesty and kindness, his infinite patience,
his willingness to go through complicated details
and to sacrifice his time endlessly, enabled him
gradually to build up an extensive patronage.
The business became profitable, and what weighed
equally with him, it became a real service to a
great many people. He helped families acquire
homes, he saved workers from failure by extend-
ing credit, he persuaded scores to thrift and
investment. As his clientele increased his office24

LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

became the center of a veritable parish. He had
a remarkable memory and carried countless
transactions and personal relations in his mind.
He knew not only the men to whom he loaned
money and for whom he made investments, but
their families and their family histories. He
was always ready to counsel and usually coun-
selled wisely. His manner was always unaffect-
edly cordial and courteous; he was as considerate
of a manual laborer as of a large investor, as
gallant to a poor widow as to an heiress. After
his death a friend wrote the family: "I doubt
if you realize how pleasant it made one feel to
transact business with your father. He had a
way of doing business which made business
pleasant, and each transaction we had was such
that I looked forward with pleasant anticipation
to the next time I was to see him.''

Some of his clients were in occupations in
which alternations of high pay and unemployment
made many difficulties. Some always got inade-
quate wages. Some could not have gotten credit
elsewhere and in most offices would have been
avoided as hopeless cases. Many such he helped
through good times and bad, frequently with
mutual benefit and satisfaction in the end. His
books were never free from men whom he carried
along in some building or home-buying operation
far beyond reasonable security, occasionally toLOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

25

his sorrow. He was the last to lose confidence
in those with whom he dealt. When unemploy-
ment, sickness, shiftlessness or shiftiness of clients
brought losses, he was loathe to recognize them
as such, and sometimes kept them on his books
long after they had become mere memories. Some-
times, too, it would seem that he made loans out
of sheer sympathy for misfortune or hard luck,
casting his bread upon the waters, on the chance
that though the current was running strongly out
to sea it might return after many days. And
when it never did return, regretful acknowledg-
ment and complaint of the loss seldom outweighed
the satisfaction of having yielded to a charitable
impulse; and he did the same thing again. Per-
haps, too, at first, his optimism and his specu-
lative bent, though he had learned by experience
to hold it in check, led him to take chances in the
proportion of his advances to the security upon
which they were based, in the amount of loans
which he guaranteed and the total amount of the
obligations which he assumed. But fortune this
time was with him, and the general prosperity of
the country and of the city made good his reckon-
ing. His judgment, ripened in many transactions
large and small, became remarkably accurate;
and his tremendous energy, his integrity, his26

LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

ability to save, and his genuine interest in his
clients brought their rightful reward.

That the universal recognition of his well-
merited success gave him pleasure there can be
no doubt. He was intensely interested in his
business from the time he started it till the
moment he laid down his pen after what was to
prove his last day upon earth. He was gratified
that it developed into an established institution,
with the highest standing and with every prospect
of permanence. By the time of his death, with the
help of his son Louis, after 1906, he had increased
the volume of transactions until there were more
than seven hundred active accounts upon his
books. He had taken care of larger and larger
investments, and the soundness and security of
the business was beyond all question. Whatever
profits there were he had put back into the in-
crease of his working capital, to strengthen and
extend his work. For his heart was set on his
business itself rather than on profits. He never
sought money for its own sake. He spent very
little indeed upon himself; though not at all
ascetic, he cared little for personal comforts and
nothing for luxuries. Money was for him a test
of success in business, an assurance of stability,
a means of doing good, a possible contribution
to his family, his church and his community. His
greatest satisfaction came from the thought thatLOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

27

he had the means for extending financial credit
to those who needed it and would use it well,
that he could give the assurance of safe invest-
ment to those who sought it, that the prosperity
of his business carried with it the welfare of many
other people. For him there were only two goals
worthy of endeavor, character and high achieve-
ment, and his life would not be complete if either
were lacking.

Meanwhile the years brought many changes
in his home. His second son, Christopher, became
a professor at Butler College in Indianapolis,
and on June 25th, 1901, married Juliet Julian
Brown of that city. Logan, the oldest, became
an employee and later an officer of the Illinois
National Bank of Springfield. On October 30th,
1901, he married Priscilla Hitt, and not long after,
they took up their permanent residence on South
Second Street. Mary was married to Dr. Hugh
Tucker Morrison on June 23rd, 1908. They lived
at Logan Place. Louis, who had joined his father
in business, on June 30, 1908, married Anna K.
Graham. They lived with her uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs. John Lord, on South Seventh
Street. Mr. Coleman lived to see seven grand-
children, the first of whom, however, Ruth, the
daughter of Christopher and Juliet Coleman,
died in infancy. These successive additions to his28

LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

family gave Mm the greatest happiness, and
nothing pleased him more than the visits of his
new daughters and their children at Logan Place.
Dr. and Mrs. Morrison, in January of 1914 took
into their home the three small boys whose
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Ray Eldred, had lost
their lives in their mission field on the Congo.
In 1912 there came also the younger daughter of
Mr. Coleman's sister Eliza, Lucy Williams, for
whom a business opportunity opened in the
present firm of Brown, Hay and Creighton. She
became one of the family and between uncle and
niece a most beautiful comradeship developed.

While Mr. Coleman was looking forward to
a family reunion on his seventy-sixth birthday,
the end came, much as he would have wished it.
There had been some signs of failing powers,
some suffering from the heat of the summer, but
nothing that seriously alarmed him or others. On
the ninth of August, 1918, he worked at the office
as usual, and in the evening he attended a farewell
reception to Dr. and Mrs. Paul Wakefield, then
about to return to their missionary work in China.
He was in high spirits on this occasion. On the
morning of Saturday, the tenth of August, 1918,
when his son-in-law, Dr. Hugh T. Morrison, en-
tered the downstairs bedroom, he found him half
seated, half reclining, lifeless on the bed. Appar-
ently, upon his rising early in the morning, a cere-LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

29

bral hemorrhage had occurred, and he had passed
away without a struggle and without suffering.
Doubtless he would have liked to have the
members of the family with him at the end, and
to have put into his last words to them the affec-
tion of which his heart was full and the parting
advice of simple, upright, Christian living. But
of this his life itself was such an example that,
even without a word spoken, he left it as his chief
legacy to all.

The funeral services were held at the First
Christian Church on Monday afternoon, the
twelfth of August. The Reverend Charles Clay-
ton Morrison of Chicago spoke fittingly of Mr.
Coleman's life and character. The pall bearers
were: Frank A. Drake, J. W. Inslee, J. 0. Taylor,
G. A. Hulett, Henry Bengel, Latham Souther,
Henry Thoma and Frank Ide. In accordance with
the wish of Mr. Coleman, the ashes of his brother,
James 0. Coleman, who had died two years earlier
in California, were deposited in the casket. The
Logan lot in Oak Ridge Cemetery, where with a
broken heart he had laid his wife twenty-seven
long years ago was the place of burial.A MEDITATION

ON THE OCCASION OF THE CELEBRATION
OF A

SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY
(Written on the day following)"Three quarters of a century! What a long
stretch t>f time when measured by the calendar,
and yet how short when illumined by the unnum-
bered blessings that have been bestowed upon
me. Three quarters of a century, blessed with a
Christian parentage at the threshold of life!
Three quarters of a century, twenty-five years of
which have been hallowed by a companion of
sacred memory, whose very parents were a bene-
diction to my life! Three quarters of a century—
how luminous when cheered by the companionship
of three sons and a daughter, whose deportment
has never cast a shadow across my threshold but
who have ever made my home a home of good
cheer. Three quarters of a century! Ah, indeed
it has been shortened by brothers and sisters and
faithful friends, whose loving hearts and helping
hands have been a great contribution to this priv-
ileged life of mine, so full of blessing as to fill
every pore of my heart with loving gratitude. To
one and all who have thus contributed perpetual
sunshine to my life, I lift my voice for great
length of days and abounding peace and pros-
perity, and I shall ever pray for the showering
of God's richest blessing upon them all.''SERMON

BY

THE REVEREND
CHARLES CLAYTON MORRISON

AT THE FUNERAL OP
LOUIS HARRISON COLEMANSermon by the Reverend Charles Clayton
Morrison.

Instinctively our hearts feel that the occasion
that draws us together today is not a mournful
one, though all our thoughts are deep and tender,
but a triumphant one. We are gathered to cele-
brate a great life that has dwelt among us, that
has left its impress upon our lives, and has passed
into the unseen, laden with many spiritual treas-
ures which it has gathered during the span of
years it has dwelt among us. To a wide group
of us Mr. Coleman has been friend and counsellor,
bringing the cheer of his personality and the
wisdom of his ripe years to encourage and guide
us on our way of life. Our thoughts today are
grateful thoughts, vibrant with quiet praise for
God's goodness in giving him to us, and rejoicing
in the unshaken tfaith' that, for him, death is
indeed the door into increasing and ever more
fruitful life.

After all, we depend, even the strongest of
us, upon one another for what faith we have.
Belief in God, and in all things of the spiritual
life, is not so much an achievement of our own
individual effort or insight as it is an impartation
which we receive from other souls. Left to our-
selves, how many of us could ever have come to
possess those treasures of character and inner
power which we know are the very substance and36

LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

essence of life? We are ever coming to other
souls, asking them to give us a drink of the water
which they seem to draw from greater depths
than we have been able to reach. It is by contact
with such lives that there is at last opened within
us a well of living water whose constant and
abundant flow refreshes all the thirsty soil of our
nature and keeps the flowers of hope and courage
and faith blossoming in the garden of our inner
life. Mr. Coleman became to his community such
a center and source of moral inspiration and
support that in the hour of his taking away we
are all made vividly aware of the peculiar debt
we owe him. Our own faith was made easier by
his faith. His hopefulness, his cheeriness, his
spirituality, radiated through all our hearts,
lightening our load and deepening our conviction
of the reality of divine things.

There are two aspects of our friend's per-
sonality which have always impressed me as
especially significant for any appraisal! of his
character. The first of these is his acceptance
of life on terms of compliance with the laws of
life. I have known few men whose ways were
more fully subject to the orderly conditions of
happiness and health and personal efficiency than
were his. On one side of him he seemed to be
living by inflexible rule. His impulses, his appe-
tites, his interests, even his aspirations, were
curbed about with reason and rationally-formed
habit. From his activities in the church all the
way down through his business habits to his
daily personal regimen we saw a man who had
yielded himself to the laws of nature and asso-LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

37

ciation and spiritual life in such a fashion as
to be their obedient servant. In eating and
drinking, in work and in diversion, in his relation-
ships to the church and to his family, Mr. Coleman
had so constructed his character by the great
laws of life that one who knew him with any
intimacy at all could come near predicting what
he would do in a given situation. There was no
capriciousness or whimsicality in his nature. He
was one of those calculable quantities upon which
the organized interests of any community must
at last rest. In his philanthropies, in his personal
service, in his habits of church attendance and
participation, in his business relations and in his
friendships, he had built up in our mind well-
defined expectations which he never disappointed.

This, of course, is only another way of saying
that our friend had that thing we call character.
But there is value in our analysis because it
enables us to interpret the other side of his per-
sonality—his rich emotional and spiritual nature.
Law hardens some men. Under its discipline
they become stern and, perhaps, intolerant,
formally good, but lacking the sweetness and joy
and fellowship of goodness. In such souls the
springs of impulse dry up, the romantic and
poetic elements drop away, and character stiffens
into formal virtue. Our dear friend altogether
escaped the temptation to become a victim of the
rules of life, a mere legalist, and gave us in his
character a beautiful example of a soul that finds
its true freedom through its obedience to the law
of liberty. There was in him a warmth of spirit,
a responsiveness, an almost childlike freshness38

LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

of feeling for all natural beauty and all true
artistry. His love of nature was no vicarious
second-hand emotion, as it is with many of us,
but a love that often drew him in the very early
morning hours, when the city had not yet waked,
to go into the garden where, upon his hands and
knees, he could be found sharing the life of the
plants and flowers that he loved. I think the
expression of his countenance I will always
remember as most characteristic will be that
which he wore when he came in to greet his guests
offering them each a nosegay he had just plucked
from the garden. He always sensed the fine thing,
the gracious thing, in every situation.

This is all the more worth dwelling upon
when we remind our hearts of the contrary effect
of modern life on the active man of business.
Dollars and cents, trades and contracts, profits
and prospects, bulk so large in the mind and
interest of many business men that unless your
conversation leads them into that field they have
but little to say. Yet here was a business man
who went to his office early and stayed late, who
bought and sold and kept books, but who, never-
theless, kept his soul open to the touch of stars
and flowers and friendships and sweet music and
the presence of God. This is what we loved in
him—his unhardened humanness, his warmth and
range of affection, his unspoiled love of the fine
and the beautiful, and the simplicity of his trust
in the heavenly Father.

In all our thinking upon this dear life I am
sure we shall come at the end to say that the
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was nothing other than his deep religious faith.
He believed in God, a God of law, a God also of
life and freedom. He believed in Christ, a Christ
whose genial presence was ever with Mm, touch-
ing to fine issues the habits and impulses of his
heart. We shall miss him, his good counsel, his
radiant spirit, his helpful cooperation in church,
in community, in civic affairs, in business circles,
in our homes and in his home. But though the
bodily symbol of his presence has vanished, we
have by no means been robbed of his presence,
for he has interwoven his life with our church,
our city and our hearts so inextricably that we
shall be reminded of Ms presence by many tokens
for years to come. And the God of love will not
disappoint us who go forward on our way cher-
ishing Ms memory in our hearts, but will bring
us at last into the light of immortality whither he
now has triumphantly gone.RESOLUTIONS IN MEMORY OF
LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

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The Illinois National Bank.

The Officers and Directors of the Illinois
National Bank desire to place on record an ex-
pression of our sincere regard for the life and
character of Louis H. Coleman, for twenty years
a director of the bank.

The first conference looking forward to the
organization of thei bank, was held at Logait
Place over thirty-two years ago. It was charac-
teristic of him that in whatever task he engaged,
he gave to that task enthusiasm and energy. His
long life was one of usefulness and honor. His
business character was one of purity and un-
bending integrity. He was forceful, but kind;
strong, yet gentle; anxious to make money as the
term is used, yet always for the sake of the good
that he could do. He believed the Golden Rule
would work in business and exemplified this belief
by his life.

He leaves to his family the heritage of a good
name, more to be desired than gold, and to his
business associates rich memories of a long,
useful, well spent life.

R. H. McAnulty, Secretary Pro-tern.44

LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

The Official Board of the
First Christian Church.

Wishing to place in the permanent records
of the church an appreciation of the life and
services of our brother and fellow worker, the
Official Board, at a meeting held September 8th,
1918, adopted the following:

In the death of Louis Harrison Coleman the
First Christian Church of Springfield, Illinois,
has lost one of its most faithful and loyal mem-
bers. For over fifty years his membership was
with this church. For over forty years he served
faithfully as a deacon or elder, as treasurer, as
chairman of the Missionary committee, and as a
trustee. During all these years no one was ever
more ready and willing than he to do all in his
power for the best interests of the church of his
choice. His religion was emphasized more by
what he did than by what he believed. He was
not dogmatic. He possessed the open mind. He
was willing to learn. This was shown by his
constant attendance at the Bible School, and the
Bible class. Having given himself early in life
to the better way he was faithful to the end.

Mr. Coleman's business reputation was above
reproach. His kindness was proverbial. HisLOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

45

faith was very simple. He loved children and
flowers and the home life. He often likened the
church to the family. He cherished no enmities.
He excused faults in others. He disliked con-
troversies. He was gentle and teachable as a
little child. Though gentle in manner, he was
strong in the great purposes of life.

As a friend he was loyal, as a neighbor
always ready to extend the helping hand, and as
a father he was most devoted. The well being
of his family was closely linked with his abiding
interest in the church. He leaves to all—family—
church—community, the rich legacy of a most
useful, loyal, devoted life.46

LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

The Bible School op the
Fiest Christian Church.

We mourn today the passing from this life of
Elder Louis Harrison Coleman, for many years
probably the most faithful and zealous member
of and laborer in our Bible School. Brother
Coleman has served either by election or appoint-
ment in probably every office in the Bible School
and Church and his service was ever of the high-
est order of efficiency and faithfulness.

We shall miss him in our councils together,
in our social and fraternal gatherings, in our
labors in the field; but, most of all, perhaps, we
shall miss him in battle-line in our warfare
against the evils which beset us in our city and
state and nation, for it is as a valiant soldier of
the Cross that we must think of him and honor
him in our hearts; a soldier who has fallen in
battle after many victories.

The Bible School of the First Christian
Church will keep his name in loving memory and
with faith and confidence commends his soul unto
God who gave it.LOUIS HARRISON COLEMAN.

47

The Stuart Stbeet Christian Church.

Whereas, God in His infinite wisdom and
mercy has seen fit to remove from our midst to
his eternal reward our Friend and Brother,
L. H. Coleman, and

Whereas, in the death of Brother Coleman
the Stuart Street Christian Church has lost one
of its best friends and benefactors, one who was
always zealous in its welfare and upbuilding. Now
therefore be it

Resolved, that the Board of Stuart Street
Christian Church extend to the family of the
deceased its heartfelt sympathy in their sad
bereavement in the loss of their father.48

louis harrison coleman

Eureka College.

The Board of Trustees of Eureka College, of
which Brother L. H. Coleman was a faithful mem-
ber for more than twenty-five years, contributing
generously of his time and means to the main-
tenance of this institution, express our apprecia-
tion of his services, and our sense of great loss
in his passing.

Knowing the high Christian ideals which
prompted the life of Brother Coleman; his great
hospitality, his keen interest in the life of the
young people around him, his general interest in
his home church in which for many years he was
an officer, and his contribution to Christianity
throughout the stateTherefore, be it resolved;
That we express our sympathy to the family in
their great bereavement in the loss of their father,
and that we commend them to the comfort and
care of our Heavenly Father.GENEALOGICAL NOTES.GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

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The Coleman Family.

James Ormsby Coleman, b. in Pa., m. Lucy
Hawkins, b. on a flat-boat on the Ohio River.
Their children; Stephen 0., Hardin Hawkins,
Nathan, John, William P., Eliza, Margaret, Mary,
Sarah.

Stephen O. Coleman d. unmarried, killed in
the Civil War at Springfield, Mo.

Hardin Hawkins Coleman, b. Oct. 26, 1812,
d. May 30, 1874, m. 1 Barbara Ann Hopper. See
below.

Nathan Coleman, m. 1 Frances Dallam; born
to them; Lucy, Milton, Joe. Nathan Coleman, m.
2 Sarah Baker: born to them; Nathan and Robert.

Margaret Coleman m. William Price. They
had no children.

John Coleman m. Bettie Franklin: born to
them; William.

William P. Coleman m. twice; he had no chil-
dren ; lived in California.

Mary Coleman m. James Davidson: born to
them; Jessie, Lucy, Kate, Pearl, Stephen, Julian.

Sarah Coleman m. Dr. William Houston:
born to them; Lucy, Ermine,. Hardin. Lucy
Houston m. the Reverend Marion Stevenson: born
to them, Paul, who is now a missionary in China
and has two children. Ermine Houston m.52

genealogical notes.

Lyman Henry: they have four children; three
daughters and a son. Hardin Houston d. un-
married. Eliza Coleman d. at the age of sixteen.

Descent and Family of Barbara Anne Hopper.

Daniel Harrison, one of four brothers who
settled in what is now Rockingham County, Va.,
m. 2 Widow Stephenson; their youngest son was
Lieut.-Col. Benjamin Harrison.

Lieut.-Col. Benjamin Harrison m. Mary Mc-
Clure; among their children was Daniel Harrison.

Daniel Harrison m. Annie or Elvira Irving,
the daughter of Francis Ervin and Elizabeth
Clemmons Ervin. The Ervin family was descend-
ed from Scotch Covenanters who lived for a while
in Frankfort-on-the-Main and afterwards settled
in what is now Rockingham County, Ya.; Sir
Patrick Hume is said to have been one of its
ancestors. Among their children were Harvey,
Theodosia, Edith, Maria.

Harvey Harrison m. 1....................Penington:

born to them; Byron, Theodosia, William. 2 Nora
....................: born to them two children.

Theodosia Harrison m. Thomas Hawkes:
born to them; Mary, Louis, William, Joe, Dan.

Edith Harrison m. William Hopper; see
below.

Maria Harrison died unmarried.

Edith Harrison m. William Hopper: born toGENEALOGICAL NOTES.

53

them; Barbara Anne (b. June 16, 1816, d. March
30, 1853), Harvey, Harrison, Frances Maria,
Logan and Mary T.

Barbara Ann Hopper m. Hardin Hawkins
Coleman; see below.

Harvey Hopper died unmarried.

Harrison Hopper m. Harriet Bryan: born to
them; Caroline, Harry, Edith, Susan, Bryan,
Bettie, Hattie, Lucy (d. in infancy), William.

Frances Maria Hopper m. John M. Owens:
born to them; Edith, Theodosia, Ella, Laura.
Edith Owens m. Dr. William Hill: born to them,

Fanny, who m.........................Dickerson. Theodosia

Owens m.........................Murdock; they had four sons.

Ella Owens m. 1 Curtis Gray: born to them Owens

Gray. m. 2..................Hoyt; born to them one son.

Laura Owens m. W. F. Hackney; born to them,
Frances Hackney, who married Lloyd Atkinson.

Logan Hopper m. Letitia Clendenin: born to
them; Eva, Harrison, William, Frank, Charles,
Belle.

Mary T. Hopper m. James Owens, brother of
John M. Owens above: born to them; Minnie,
Anna, Eunice, Edith, Margaret, Charles. Min-
nie Owens m. Harris Chamberlain. Anna
Owens m. Alfred Hinckley. Eunice Owens m.
Lafayette Marks; they had three sons and two
daughters. Edith Owens m. T. B. Rankin.
Margaret Owens died unmarried. Charles m.
Isa Chapman.54

genealogical notes.

The Coleman Family—Continued.

Hardin Hawkins Coleman m. 1 Barbara Ann
Hopper: born to them; William Henry (d in
infancy), Mary Hopper, Louis Harrison, James
0., William, Stephen Ormsby.

Mary Hopper Coleman m. William T. Wood:
born to them; William (d. in infancy), Barbara
A., John H., James B., Richard W., Jenny C.,
Lucy F. Barbara Wood m. Henry Keiser; she
died without issue. John Wood m. Carrie Wil-
son; they have no children. James Wood m.
Nellie Philips: born to them, Philips Wood, who
married Elsie Otto and has a daughter, Mary
Ann, and a son, Philips Edward. Richard

Wood m. Bonnie ..............................; they died without

issue. Jenny Wood m. 2 Rudolph Evans; she
has two daughters, Lucy, married to Samuel Chew,
and June, married to Joseph Piatt. Lucy Wood
died July 9, 1891.

Louis Harrison Coleman m. Jennie Bush
Logan; see below.

James 0. Coleman m. Emma Johnson, a
widow. He died without issue Dec. 21,1916.

William Coleman m. Rosie Ausenbaugh; born
to them, Helen.

Stephen Ormsby Coleman m. Melissa T. Wig-
gington, a widow. He died without issue, in 1906.GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

55

Hardin Hawkins Coleman m. 2 Mary Cath-
erine Lakin; born to them; Lucy, Charlotte and
Eliza J. (Kitty).

Lucy Coleman m. Francis Buckner Williams:
born to them; Abraham, Catherine Anne, Hardin
Coleman, Francis Buckner Jr., Louis Coleman.
Abraham, Catherine Anne, and Hardin Coleman
Williams all died in infancy. Francis Buckner
Williams Jr. m. Hanna Ingvelson: born to them;
Catherine Ingvelson, Robert Francis, Emily
Lucile (d. in infancy). Louis Coleman Wil-
liams is unmarried.

Eliza J. Coleman m. Thomas Williams, cousin
of Francis Buckner Williams above: born to
them; Robert E., Mary Catherine, Lucy Cole-
man, Stephen Coleman. Dr. Robert E. Williams
m. Kathleen Selby; born to them; Virginia, Robert
E. Jr. Mary Catherine Williams m. John M.
Wells. Lucy Coleman Williams is unmarried.
Stephen Coleman Williams, First Lieut, in IT. S.
A., served in France, m. Ruth Runner.

Hardin Hawkins Coleman m. 3 Lucy Allen:
born to them, John.

Hardin Hawkins Coleman m. 4 Sarah Van
Culin; there were no children.56

GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

The Logan Family.

For the Logan family of Kentucky, see
Thomas Marshall Green: Historic Families of
Kentucky, First Series. (Cincinnati, 1889), pp.
117-229. See also Memorials of the Life and
Character of Stephen T. Logan, privately printed
at Springfield, 111., 1882.

Two brothers, James and David Logan, came
from Ireland and settled in Augusta County, Va.,
about 1750.

David Logan m. Jane................. Among their

children were General Benjamin Logan (the fam-
ous Kentucky pioneer and Indian fighter), Hugh
Logan, Col. John Logan, Nathaniel Logan.

Col. John Logan m. Jane McClure. Col. John
Logan went to Kentucky in 1776 and settled in
Lincoln County. He was the first Treasurer of
Kentucky and held that office continuously for
many years. Born to John and Jane McClure
Logan; David, Mary, Jane, Theodosia, Elizabeth.

David Logan m. 1 Mary Trigg; see below.

Mary Logan m. 1 Otto H. Beatty, 2 James
Blain.

Jane Logan m. Joseph Ballinger.

Theodosia Logan on May 13,1806, m. Christo-
pher B. Tompkins, who was one time Judge of the
Circuit Court of Barren County, Kentucky, at
another time represented his district in Congress,GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

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and in whose office Stephen Trigg Logan studied
law. Born to them; Sarah Ann, Letitia, Eugenia,
Elizabeth, Caroline, Davidella, John, Benjamin,
Theodosia, Christopher. Letitia, Elizabeth,
Caroline, John, Benjamin and Christopher Tomp-
kins died unmarried. Sarah Ann Tompkins m.
1 Dr. R. B. Garnett; their daughter Theodosia m.
F. A. Emery; b. to them, Anna who married Rob-
ert S. Clark, and has four children, Theodosia B.,
Stuart Benson, Eleanor G., Breckinridge T.
Sarah Ann Tompkins m. 2 William L. Breckin-
ridge. Eugenia Tompkins m. William Garnett,
brother of Dr. R. B. Garnett above: born to them;
Theodosia L., Christopher T. (who was killed in
the Union army at Vicksburg), Gwynn (m. Pa-
tience Hancock; children, Eugene, Gwynn, Emma,
Cyrus), Elizabeth, Frances Caroline, Richard,
William (has two daughters, Marion, Frances),
Eugene. Theodosia Tompkins m. Dr. James
Hall: born to them five children, one of whom,
C. T., became an officer in the U. S. army.
Davidella Tompkins m. Thomas Crutcher: born
to them, Henry, Elizabeth, James, Thomas.

Elizabeth Logan m. Edward Lanier Harris.

David Logan m. 1 Mary Trigg, daughter of
Stephen Trigg who was killed in the battle of
Blue Licks in 1782, and of Mary, daughter of
Israel Christian. Born to David and Mary Trigg58

GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

Logan, Stephen Trigg Logan. David Logan m.

2 ........................ McKinley; born to them; Hannetta

and Sally.

Stephen Trigg Logan m. America T. Bush;
see below.

Hannetta Logan died unmarried.

Sally Logan m. Col. L. T. Thustin; born to

them; Sally, Bettie (who married ........................

McDowell), Luther.

Stephen Trigg Logan b. in Franklin County,
Ky., Feb. 24, 1800, m. America T. Bush of Glas-
gow, Ky., d. of W. T. and Sally Tandy Bush. Born
to them; David, William, Christopher, Mary,
Sally, Stephen T., Jennie and Kate.

David Logan moved to Oregon, married, and
died without issue near Salem, Oregon.

William Logan died in infancy.

Christopher died in California, unmarried,
at the age of twenty-two.

Mary Logan b. in Glasgow, Ky., Aug. 18,1831,
m. Milton Hay on June 11th, 1861, d. at Spring-
field, 111., March 4, 1874. See below, The Hay
Family.

Sally Logan b. at Springfield, 111., Aug. 27,
1834, m. Col. Ward H. Lamon on Nov. 26th, 1861,
d. at Brussels, Belgium, in 1892, without issue.

Stephen T. Logan Jr., died in infancy.

Jennie Bush Logan b. at Springfield, 111., Feb.
19, 1843, m. Louis Harrison Coleman on Oct. 4th,genealogical notes.

59

1866, d. at Springfield, May 19th, 1891. See above
in Memoir of Louis Harrison Coleman, and below
in The Coleman Family.

Kate Logan b. at Springfield, 111., March 17,
1845, m. David Talbert Littler on Sept. 15th, 1868,
d. Jan. 26th, 1875. See below, The Littler Family.

The Coleman Family—Continued.

Louis Harrison Coleman m. Jennie Bush
Logan; born to them; Logan, May 25,1873; Chris-
topher Bush, April 24, 1875; Mary Logan, Feb.
18,1880; Louis Garfield, Aug. 6,1881.

Logan Coleman m. Priscilla Hitt on Oct. 30,
1901; born to them, Mary (Polly), July 18, 1911.

Christopher Bush Coleman m. Juliet Julian
Brown on June 25th, 1901; born to them; Ruth,
Dec. 15, 1902, d. Dee. 23, 1902; Constance, Jan.
18, 1905, Martha Julian, Dec. 19, 1914.

Mary Logan Coleman m. Dr. Hugh Tucker
Morrison on June 23, 1908.

Louis Garfield Coleman m. Anna K. Graham
on June 30, 1908; born to them; Nancy, April 12,
1910; Jenny, June 2, 1912; John Lord, July 19,
1917; Margaret (Peggy), Feb. 1,1919.

The Hay Family.

For the Hay family see William Roscoe
Thayer; Life and Letters of John Hay.60

GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

John Hay m. Jemima Coulter; born to them;
Charles, Mary, Nathaniel, John, Milton, Joseph
Addison, Theodore, Julia, Catherine (d. in in-
fancy), Elma, Maria, Deniza, and Elizabeth.

Charles Hay m. Helen Leonard; born to them;
Mary, John, Charles, Leonard. Mary Hay m.
Coleman Wolf oik. John Hay was Secretary of
State of the United States under President Roose-
velt. He married Clara Stone. Charles Hay m.
Mary Eidgely.

Mary Hay m............................... Allen. She died

without issue.

Milton Hay b. July 3, 1818, m. Mary Logan
on June 11th, 1861, d. Sept. 15, 1893. See below.

Joseph Addison Hay m. Elizabeth Prentiss:
born to them; Julia, Elma and Addie. Julia
Hay m. Joseh H. Collins. Elma Hay m. Jere-
miah Muir. Addie Hay m. Will Clark.

Theodore Hay m. Sally Frye: born to them,
Jacob Frye.

Julia Hay m. Joshua Amos: born to them;
George, John, Sarah. Sarah Amos m. Levin
Shepherd.

Catherine Hay died unmarried.

Elma Hay died unmarried.

Maria Hay died unmarried.

Deniza Hay died unmarried.

Elizabeth Hay died unmarried.genealogical notes.

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Milton Hay m. Mary Logan; born to them;
Kate Logan, March 21, 1864; Sally Logan, Aug.
8, 1866; Logan, Feb. 13, 1871.

Kate Logan Hay m. Stuart Brown: born to
them; Milton Hay, April 2, 1886; Christine, Nov.
7, 1892; Jane Logan, July 7, 1899. Milton Hay
Brown m. Jessie Gridley: born to them; Stuart
Brown 2nd, Oct. 25, 1911; Katherine Logan, Feb.
12, 1916; Milton Hay Brown Jr., June 7, 1919.
Sally Logan Hay died March 12,1868.

Logan Hay m. Lucy Bowen: born to them;
Mary Douglass, Oct. 21, 1900; Alice Houghton,
Dec. 18, 1901.

The Littlek Family.

Robinson Littler m. Catherine Wilkinson:
born to them; Joseph Johnson, Eebecca Jane,
Isaiah, Nathan, James Robinson, Nancy Ann,
George Washington, David Talbert and Rachel
Talbert.

Joseph Johnson Littler died without issue.
Rebecca Jane Littler died in infancy.

Isaiah Littler, b. May 29, 1828, d. April 20,
1902. He had three children, Joseph E., Chester
L., and Emma (Littler Jones).

Nathan Littler b. Dec. 3,1829, d. Jan. 6,1910.
He had eight children; Charles W., Irwin, Richard
Hardin, Samuel, Laura (Littler Mathews), Clara62

GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

(Littler Brenner), Florence, Martha (Littler
Newman).

James Robinson Littler, b. Oct. 15, 1831, d.
May 2, 1885. He had one son, Charles R. Littler.

Nancy Ann Littler b. March 2,1833, d. in Sep-
tember, 1900, m. John Wilson. They had one son,
Homer L.

George Washington Littler b. July 13, 1834,
d. December, 1890. He had six children; A. W.,
David R., Ella (Littler Snyder), Josie (Littler
Mounts), Rosa (Littler Laird), and Dio T.

David Talbert Littler b. Feb. 7, 1836, d. June
23,1902. Married 1 Kate Logan. See above, The
Logan Family, also below.

Rachel Talbert Littler m.........................Funston.

She died without issue.

David Talbert Littler m. 1 Kate Logan: born
to them, Stephen Logan, July 3, 1870, d. Oct. 25,
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