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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.

Container List

Series 4: Mary Haldane Begg Coleman

1875-1967

Subseries 1: Diaries
1883-1965
Scope and Contents
Move from Coleman Wilson Collection
Subseries 2: Correspondence
1884-1965
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1
  Correspondence: 1884
  1884
  Scope and Contents
  File includes correspondence as a child with mother, father, brother and sister.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2
  Correspondence: 1885
  1885 May 21-24
  Scope and Contents
  File includes correspondence as a child with mother, father, brother and sister.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3
  Correspondence: 1891
  1891 January 4-July 25
  Scope and Contents
  File includes letters to Eva Saunders of "Flat Creek, " Campbell County, Virginia.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 4
  Correspondence: 1892
  1892 January 24-May 31
  Scope and Contents
  File includes letter to Eva Saunders of Lynchburg, Virginia.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 5
  Correspondence: 1893
  1893 January 6- December 29
  Scope and Contents
  File includes correspondence with Eva Saunders of Lynchburg, Virginia, Anna Fuller and James F. Plummer.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 6
  Correspondence: 1894
  1894 January 8- October 20 and n.d.
  Scope and Contents
  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.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 7
  Correspondence: 1895
  1895 April 5- October 31
  Scope and Contents
  File includes letter of Anna Roosevelt written while MHBC is in Prussia with the Henrici family studying to be a governess.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 8
  Correspondence: 1896
  1896 January 31- December 5
  Scope and Contents
  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
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 9
  Correspondence: 1897
  1897 January 6- April 10
  Scope and Contents
  File includes letters concerning MHBC's engagement to George Preston Coleman.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 10
  Correspondence: 1898
  1898 August 31
  Scope and Contents
  File includes letter of Dallas Tucker returning stories.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 11
  Correspondence: 1899
  1899 March 26- November 19
  Scope and Contents
  File includes letter about MHBC's first visit to Williamsburg and a letter of James Deas, Glasgow, Scotland.
Mixed Materials Box: 1
Box 1
1867-1993