Northern Alabama, historical and . y, severalyears of his salary as nisi priiic judge; for nosooner had the victorious army taken control ofaffairs than Coleman was notified that his timewas out. The matter of payment of his salary justlydue him for years of judicial service, amountingto thousands of dollars, after the close of thewar, became a question before the .State Su-preme Court, and that august body held thaton account of his disloyalty, A. A. Colemanwas disqualified for office, and gravely decidedthat /te had served the rebel State nf Alabama,and must look to the said r
Northern Alabama, historical and . y, severalyears of his salary as nisi priiic judge; for nosooner had the victorious army taken control ofaffairs than Coleman was notified that his timewas out. The matter of payment of his salary justlydue him for years of judicial service, amountingto thousands of dollars, after the close of thewar, became a question before the .State Su-preme Court, and that august body held thaton account of his disloyalty, A. A. Colemanwas disqualified for office, and gravely decidedthat /te had served the rebel State nf Alabama,and must look to the said rebel State for hispail! The Judge was probably the first man ejectedfrom office in this State by military authority;and it should be written that the great State ofAlabama has never re-imbursed him in the amountof his salary appropriated to her use in the wag-ing of war. Of the original founders of the SouthernIniversity. Judge Coleman and Dr. A. II. Mit-chell are, at this writing (March, ), theonlv survivors within the State. Alwavs inter-. ^^-^^oe^ <5^<^ CCCC^&^^ NORTHERN ALABAMA. 563 ested in the advancement of education, theUniversity has, from its inception, never ceasedto be an object of the Judges affection; and itis to him as much as to any other one man,that this great institution of learning is indebtedfor its success. Judge Coleman was married in Sumter County,this State, to tlie accomplished daugliter of JohnC. Phares, a successful planter and merchant;and of the three sons born to them, one is amerchant, another a physician, and the third alawyer. The subject of this sketch is a Freemason, anOdd Fellow, and a consistent member of theMethodist Episcopal Church. He is a profoundscholar, a polished gentleman, a superior lawyer, agraceful orator, an entertaining conversationalist,and, above all, a man in whom there is no guile, anda citizen of Greensboro against whose characterand good name there never has been a is Augustus A. Coleman, and suc
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