WARREN COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: COLEMAN, Harrison Arthur (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
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Volume V, page 240 with photo
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 HARRISON ARTHUR COLEMAN, M.D. Since 1911 a resident of new
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Philadelphia, Doctor Coleman has earned many distinctions as an able
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physician and surgeon and as a popular and progressive citizen, and he held
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the rank of major for service as a medical officer during the World war,
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being stationed on duty in the Hawaiian Islands.
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Doctor Coleman was born at Springboro, Warren County, Ohio, July
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19, 1886, son of Louis F. and Mira (Maltbie) Coleman, who were also born
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and reared in Warren County. His grandfather, Asa Coleman, was a native of
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the same county, and married Miss Coulson. Mira Maltbie was a daughter of
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Arthur and Nancy J. (Moses) Maltbie. In lineage the Colemans are of Welsh
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and English and Irish extraction, the Coulsons of English, the Maltbie and
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Moses families of old New Jersey stock, probably English. All these
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families have been in America since before the Revolutionary war. Doctor
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Coleman's father is now past seventy-two years of age, and has given his
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active life to educational work.
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The only child of his parents, Harrison Arthur Coleman grew up at
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Springboro, graduated from the high school there, and then entered Ohio
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Wesleyan University, where he took his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1906. The
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Master of Arts degree was awarded him by Ohio Wesleyan in 1910, the same
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year that he received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Western Reserve
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University at Cleveland. Doctor Coleman in 1911 located at new
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Philadelphia. While engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery
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his talents have proved most effective as a surgeon. He is a member of the
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medical staff of the hospital of New Philadelphia, and is a member of the
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Tuscarawas County, Ohio State and American Medical Associations.
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Doctor Coleman was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical
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Reserve Corps, and on May 31, 1917, was called to active duty being sent to
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the Hawaiian Islands. He reported at Honolulu for garrison duty, and was
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stationed at the Schofield barracks from June 5, 1917, until the latter
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part of May 1919. He was promoted to captain, and for the last seventeen
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months of his service held the rank of major. Doctor Coleman was in the
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service for two years, and on getting his honorable discharge returned to
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New Philadelphia and resumed private practice. He is a member of the
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American Legion, is a Knights Templar Mason, belongs to the Benevolent and
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Protective Order of Elks, the Kiwanis Club, the Methodist Episcopal Church,
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and a lieutenant colonel in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States
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Army. Doctor Coleman has served on the City Council of New Philadelphia,
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and is a republican in politics. He is a director in the Canton Brick and
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Fireproofing Company.
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In 1912 he married Miss Margaret E. Campbell, a native of Prince
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Edward Island, Canada. Their two children are Robert L. and Norman A.
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