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Conditions Governing Access

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.

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.