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REV. A. B. COLEMAN, citizen of Lincoln County, and a native of the Keystone State, was born in November, 1830, in Indiana County. He is a son of James and Mary (Campbell) Coleman, both natives of Pennsylvania, and both of Scotch-Irish extraction. The father was born in Indiana County about 1795, and followed the occupation of farmer. He died in 1857. The mother was born in 1801, in Westmoreland County, and after the death of her husband, lived with her children. She died in 1884, in her eighty-second year. She was the mother of nine children, five of whom are now living: John, Mary Jane (wife of Alexander Lyons), Margaret, Thomas W., and our subject, who remained with his parents till he was thirty years of age. His academic education was received at Elder’s Ridge Academy, Pennsylvania, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church, and at the age of eighteen he entered the teacher’s profession, which occupation he continued for upward of ten years, but not without interruption, however, as he attended school some of the time. In 1857 he entered the Westminister College, Wilmington, Del., and commenced the study of the ministry proper. He graduated in June, 1859, and in 1861 he was licensed to preach. The following year he was ordained as minister, and sent to Minnesota to do missionary work, where he remained five years engaged in his religious duties. In 1867 he was sent South to organize and lay a foundation for their church work. He came to Lincoln County, Tenn., where he has since remained engaged in the good work. The same year of his arrival he dedicated the first United Presbyterian Church in the State of Tennessee. January 31, 1868, he married Hannah B. Taylor, a native of Lincoln County, born in 1840, and the daughter of Henry and Catherine M. Taylor. As a citizen Mr. Coleman is highly respected and bears the reputation of being a man of high character and one who leads a conscientious, straight-forward course through life, During the war he affiliated with the Union cause and was a strong supporter of the same. Mr. Coleman had the misfortune to lose his wife December 10, 1883.