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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Pulaski County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Fred. B. Coleman, one of the principal stock raisers and dairymen of Pulaski County, was born in Peoria, Ill., in 1851, and is a son of E. B. and Mary Ann Coleman, the father a native of New York State, and the mother from Illinois, in which State they were married. Fred, was partly reared in Illinois, and came to Arkansas with his parents in 1864. The elder Coleman established a fruit and nursery business, and his son remained with him until 1877, when the father died. Young Fred then opened up the Evergreen dairy, and ran the same in connection with a stock business. He has the graded Jersey stock, which he is now crossing with the Holstein, and milks about fifty cows per day, collecting from them on an average seventy-five gallons. Aside from his dairy and stock interests, he owns 300 acres of valuable land, all of which is under fence, and 100 acres in a fine state of cultivation. Mr. Coleman’s dairy interests are among the largest in Pulaski County. He has secured a lucrative patronage by his square and honest methods of doing business, and as a stock dealer he owns some of the finest cattle in that section. In 1881 he was married to Miss Anna Kogasku, a daughter of John and Wandy Rogasku, by whom he has had three children: Flora, Mamie and Minnie, the latter being twins, who have since died, as also his wife, who died in 1885. During the Civil War, Mr. Coleman served in the Federal army as sutler of the Second Arkansas Infantry (holding a commission when he was fourteen years old), one year and a half, belonging to the Second Arkansas Regiment. In politics he is a Republican, and in religious faith a Roman Catholic. He is a valued and highly respected citizen, and one of the leading spirits in all public and private enterprises that tend to the advancement of his county.

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This family biography is one of 156 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Pulaski County, Arkansas published in 1889.  For the complete description, click here: Pulaski County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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