Researching Robert Coleman
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The name Robert means "bright fame" and is of English origin.
Records of Robert Coleman on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Robert Coleman and the Coleman Family History
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Coleman Family History Databases
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Coleman Forums
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Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Robert Coleman. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Robert Coleman
Robert Habersham Coleman
Robert Habersham Coleman (1856–1930) was an iron processing and railroad industrialist and owner of extensive farmland in Pennsylvania.
He was the fourth- and last-generation scion of a family which controlled Cornwall Iron Furnace, in Cornwall, Pennsylvania. This major coal-burning ironmaking facility was founded in 1742 by Peter Grubb and produced pig iron, domestic products, and, during the American Revolution and Civil War, cannon barrels. Coleman shut the facility in 1883, opening new facilities for the company.
In 1881, at the time he took over his family's business, he was worth about seven million dollars. By 1889 he was estimated to be worth thirty million dollars. By 1893 the fortune had vanished. One of his homes, Cornwall Hall, was a "symbol of the rise, fame and decline of the 'king' of Cornwall (Pennsylvania) during America's Gilded Age" and was demolished after 1914.
The Cornwall Furnace facilities, donated by his descendants, with their surviving stone furnace, steam-powered air-blast machinery, and related buildings, were once the nucleus of a huge industrial plantation, and are part of a designated National Historic Landmark District.
He commissioned architect (and fraternity brother) J. Cleaveland Cady to erect the chapter house of St. Anthony Hall at Trinity College (1878), which still stands in Hartford, Connecticut.
Source: Robert Habersham Coleman, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Coleman
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