A volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of the city of Seattle and county of King, Washington, including biographies of many of those who have passed away . ativeof Dumfermlihe, Fifeshire, Scotland, born on the 17th of June, 1832. Hisancestors lived in the highlands many generations remote, but later. removed to the lowlands. His father, Bartholomew Colman, married Murray. He and his wife were people of the highest integrity andrespectability and were devout members of the Presbyterian church. Thefather departed this life in his forty-fifth year and the mothe
A volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of the city of Seattle and county of King, Washington, including biographies of many of those who have passed away . ativeof Dumfermlihe, Fifeshire, Scotland, born on the 17th of June, 1832. Hisancestors lived in the highlands many generations remote, but later. removed to the lowlands. His father, Bartholomew Colman, married Murray. He and his wife were people of the highest integrity andrespectability and were devout members of the Presbyterian church. Thefather departed this life in his forty-fifth year and the mother passed awayin her sixty-second year. They were the parents of seven children, of whomthree sons and a daughter still survive. James M. Colman, their second child, after acquiring his education, learnedthe machinists trade and also mastered the principles of engineering in hisnative land. In 1854 he took passage on a sailing vessel. The Bogart, boundfor the United States. .They had not been long at sea before they encountered asevere storm which so badly damaged the ship that she was obliged to putback to Liverpool. Nothing daunted by this misfortune, our subject sailed. ^ yii ^ iT&T^L . SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY. I79 from the latter port and after a voyage of six weeks reached the harbor ofNew York. He did not tarry long in the eastern metropolis but proceededat once across the country to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he had a cousinliving. Mr. Colman was then a young man of twenty-two years, lie en-joyed excellent health, had mastered a good trade, and had a cash capitalof one hundred dollars. Thus he started out in the land of the free. Heknew that he could earn a good living but determined to do something accepted work in a machine shop and was soon found to be such a cap-able and intelligent workman that he was made foreman of the enterpriseand held that position for seven years, but believing that there were betterbusiness oportunities for him on the Pacific coast, h
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