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COLMAN, DAVID R. miller, Sec. 34, P.O. Rockbridge. David is a son of Jeremiah Colman, born in Vincennes, Ind.; married Alvira Robinson; in tracing back their ancestry we find that they are of English and Irish descent. David’s education, that he obtained in the common schools, ended with his fourteenth year; he then went to learn the printer’s art, but on account of ill health was compelled to abandon it. His father, Jeremiah, being a miller by occupation, he concluded to follow in the line of his father’s footsteps, and began at Brighton, where remained two years. In Oct. 9, 1861, he formed a matrimonial alliance with Sarah Kellogg, she was born March 28, 1843. They have had seven children: Daniel K., born Nov. 10, 1862; May, born Sept 1866; Leona, Oct. 9, 1869. David R. was born in Jefferson County, N. Y., Sept 27, 1837, he is the eighth child of a family of thirteen children. Aug. 15, 1862, he enlisted in the U. S. service, 38th Regt of Ill. State Vol., Co. I, where he remained until the close of the war, during which time he was engaged in all the battles in which the regiment participated. Upon his return he went to Brighton, where he resumed his trade, and continued until 1869, when he went to the Rockbridge Mill, and there engaged with Mr. Sheffield, running the mill for a share of the profits. He remained there four years and a half, then returned to Brighton, remained one year, then went to Fayette June 15, 1875, where he run that mill for a time, then bought it, and moved the same to this place, and has since been running the same, and is making a success; came here without a dollar, and is now doing a good business; has a saw mill in connection with his flouring mill, and between the two he has all that he can do. His ability as an excellent miller, and his square dealing, has been recognized, and he is now on the road to wealth. He is a member of the Baptist Church, also a member of the Knights of Honor, Golden Rule Lodge, No. 1017.