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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.
Move from Coleman Wilson Collection
File includes correspondence as a child with mother, father, brother and sister.
File includes correspondence as a child with mother, father, brother and sister.
File includes letters to Eva Saunders of "Flat Creek, " Campbell County, Virginia.
File includes letter to Eva Saunders of Lynchburg, Virginia.
File includes correspondence with Eva Saunders of Lynchburg, Virginia, Anna Fuller and James F. Plummer.
File includes letters to MHBC from Robert Burns Begg of Edinburgh (her godfather), Robert Burns Begg of Kinross, Dr.Orr Deas of Edinburgh, J. R. Maben, Annie W. Gwathmey, Peronneau Brown. Includes a handwriting analysis done for her.
File includes letter of Anna Roosevelt written while MHBC is in Prussia with the Henrici family studying to be a governess.
File includes letters from England and Scotland. Acceptance of her sketch, "The Cox of St. Bride's" for the Evening Post, New York, New York. Includes hand drawn program for performance at "Ivy Cliff," of Blaubart in German as well as letters to her sister Isobel Begg
File includes letters concerning MHBC's engagement to George Preston Coleman.
File includes letter of Dallas Tucker returning stories.
File includes letter about MHBC's first visit to Williamsburg and a letter of James Deas, Glasgow, Scotland.