| 词条 | John C. Coleman |
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|birth_date={{birth date|1823|8|9}} |death_date={{death date and age|1919|3|23|1823|8|9}} |occupation=businessman |office=Member of the California State Senate}}John Crisp Coleman (August 9, 1823 – March 23, 1919) was a California mining, railroad, and public utility magnate, and served in the California State Senate.[1] He was the first President of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad, President of the North Star Mine in Grass Valley, Vice President of the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, and Vice President of California Street Cable.[2] He also served as director of the Pacific Rolling Mills, the Contra Costa Gas Company,[3] and the North Shore Railroad.[4] CareerColeman was born in Walton, Suffolk, England. John and his brother, Edward, arrived at Hangtown Creek,[5] California, in 1850. The two brothers mined at Canon Creek, El Dorado County, and two years later, mined at Iowa Hill, Placer County, where he served as President of the Sons of Temperance.[6] About this time, he went East to visit family and buy cattle.[6] In 1860, they moved to Grass Valley, Nevada County,[7] and with others, bought the Helvetia and Lafayette Mining Company.[9] The brothers opened the Morning Star Mine (Placer County) and the Idaho Mine (Nevada County) in 1867;[8] they were also part owners in the North Star Mine and the Hueston Hill Company.[9] Personal lifeColeman married Mary Lucretia Bush in 1856, and following her death in 1868, he was married in 1870 to Persis Hannah Sibley.[9][10] Ten children survived him when he died. Coleman was a Freemason, and a Trustee of the Grass Valley Congregational church.[11] The Wormser-Coleman House on 1834 California Street in San Francisco was owned by Coleman and is a San Francisco Designated Landmark.[12] The Coleman Memorial Laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery is dedicated to John C. and Edward Coleman.[13] References1. ^{{cite book|title=Pen Portraits: Autobiographies of State Officers, Legislators, Prominent Business and Professional Men of the Capital of the State of California; Also of Newspaper Proprietors, Editors, and Members of the Corps Reportorial|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fhw1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA20|edition=Public domain|year=1878|publisher=Alta California Print|pages=20–}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Coleman, John C.}}2. ^{{cite book|title=The Commercial & financial chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hUZOAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA110|accessdate=29 December 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1911|publisher=William B. Dana Co.|pages=110–}} 3. ^{{cite book|title=Gas industry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZpfmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA191|accessdate=28 December 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1918|publisher=Periodicals Pub. Co.|pages=191–}} 4. ^{{cite book|title=The Railway age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wYhMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA100|accessdate=28 December 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1902|pages=100–}} 5. ^{{cite book|last=Barstow|first=Diantha|title=The Colemans of California|year=2003|publisher=Gateway press|location=Baltimore, MD|page=19}} 6. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Cutter|first1=William Richard|author2=American historical company, inc., New York|title=American biography: a new cyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YJYMAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=28 December 2011|year=1932|publisher=Pub. under the direction of the American historical society|pages=181, 182}} 7. ^{{cite book|last=Sherman|first=Edwin Allen|title=Fifty years of Masonry in California|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bdNEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA53|accessdate=28 December 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1898|publisher=G. Spaulding|pages=53–}} 8. ^{{cite book|title=Cable Car Days in San Francisco|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SoSaAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA98|accessdate=28 December 2011|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-1021-3|pages=98–}} 9. ^{{Google books|vPEpAQAAMAAJ|The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography|page=342|keywords=|text=|plainurl=}} 10. ^{{cite book|title=General catalogue of officers & students|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZUjPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA289|accessdate=28 December 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1911|publisher=Mount Holyoke College|pages=289–}} 11. ^1 2 {{cite book|title=Bean's history and directory of Nevada County, California: Containing a complete history of the county, with sketches of the various towns and mining camps ... also, full statistics of mining and all other industrial resources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lHFNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA194|accessdate=28 December 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1867|publisher=Printed at the Daily Gazette Book and Job Office|pages=194, 203, 212, 214, 225–}} 12. ^{{cite book|last=Richards|first=Rand|title=Historic Walks in San Francisco: 18 Trails Through the City's Past|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SMuQi_WnKyQC&pg=PA309|accessdate=28 December 2011|date=October 2001|publisher=Heritage House Publishers|isbn=978-1-879367-03-6|pages=309–}} 13. ^{{cite web|url=http://ohns.ucsf.edu/research.aspx?id=1294|title=Coleman Memorial Laboratory|publisher=University of California San Francisco|accessdate=29 December 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111204101228/http://ohns.ucsf.edu/research.aspx?id=1294|archivedate=4 December 2011|df=}} 10 : 1823 births|1919 deaths|People of the California Gold Rush|People from Grass Valley, California|People from Suffolk Coastal (district)|English miners|19th-century American railroad executives|People from the San Francisco Bay Area|California state senators|19th-century American politicians |
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