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John Colemann (Louisville rolling mill owner)

b. 1817 d. 1876-03-31

Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat captain and rolling mill owner. Cork, Ireland, native. Son of Thomas Coleman and Nano Barry Coleman. Married to Margaret Bannen Coleman in 1847. Father of Thomas Coleman, Elizabeth Coleman, John Coleman, Mary Coleman, Nano Coleman, Bannen M. Coleman, Ann Coleman, and Margaret Coleman. Moved to Louisville via New Orleans in 1837. Owned and operated the steamboats Saladin and Louisville in partnership with Thomas C. Coleman in Louisville until 1851. Owned a grocery in Toronto, Canada, in 1851. Owned the Louisville Rolling Mill Company in partnership with Thomas C. Coleman in Louisville from 1853 to 1875. Employed Mary Reardon, Bridget Conroy, Ann Geiger, and Joseph Skinner as domestic servants in Louisville in 1860.

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Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 2nd District City of Louisville, p. 164A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 4th Ward City of Louisville, p. 71. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 58. J. Stoddard Johnston, ed., Memorial History of Louisville from its First Settlement to the Year 1896, vol. 1 (Chicago and New York: American Biographical Publishing Co.), 562-63.

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Colemann, John. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200769 (November 12, 2026).

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