Coleman-Kimbrough papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Summary

Extent:
80 Linear Feet
Creator:
Kimbrough, Janet C. (Janet Coleman), Coleman, Charles Washington, 1862-1932, and Coleman, Mary Haldane Begg, 1875-1967
Language:
English German

Background

Biographical / historical:

George Preston Coleman was born May 4, 1870 to Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman and Charles Washington Coleman. He was a civil engineer who served as city engineer of Winona, Minnesota. He married Mary Haldane Begg (1875-1967) in 1900 and moved back to Williamsburg, Va. in . He served on the Virginia Highway Commission and as Virginia Superintendent of Highways. Coleman served on the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary, as mayor of Williamsburg, Va. and as president of the Peninsula Bank. He died June 16, 1948. He and Mary Haldane Coleman were the parents of two children: Janet Haldane Coleman who married and divorced Raymond DeVan Kimbrough, Sr. and Cynthia Beverley Coleman Moorehead who married Singleton Moorehead.Cynthia Moorehead lived in Williamsburg but suffered ill health (lupus) much of her life. Singleton Moorehead was an architect for Colonial Williamsburg. Janet Haldane Coleman Kimbrough was in the first coed class at William and Mary and received a medical degree from the University of Virginia.

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