John E. Coleman

  Noted events in his life were:

• Family History: From "History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania," by Henry Wilson Storey, Lewis Publishing Company, 1907. Page 532

Coleman Family. In Johnstown this numerous family is ably represented by William H. Coleman, for many years connected with the mail service, and his brother, Harry L. Coleman, who has been for a long period identified with the Lorain Steel Company. They are the sons of Herman Coleman, and grandsons of John Coleman, who was born in the state of New York, and learned the blacksmith's trade. There is a tradition that the Colemans were among the first manufacturers of iron in America.

John Coleman later moved to Somerset county, Pennsylvania, where he followed his trade. This was in the days of the famous Conestoga wagons, which preceded the canal and Portage railway in the transportation of merchandise between the east, Pittsburgh and the western part of Pennsylvania. Much of his work was in the shoeing of the numerous horses employed in this traffic. He purchased a tract of land at what is now Listie, which he cleared of timber and cultivated in connection with his trade. He served in the war of 1812. As a compensation for his military services he received from the government a grant for a tract of land situated in Westmoreland county, which, however, he never took up and which was thus lost to the family.

John Coleman married Catherine Schroyer, of York, Pennsylvania, who became the mother of these children: George, served in Civil war, married and lived in Westmoreland county. John, also served in the Civil war, married and reared a family. Jacob, likewise a soldier in the Civil war, married Mary Stutzman, and had children. Sarah, wife of Alexander Hunter. Herman, of whom later.

John married Catherine Schroyer.