Daniel Coleman

Daniel Coleman (August 2, 1801 – November 4, 1857) was an American jurist who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama in 1851.

Life and career Born in Caroline County, Virginia, Coleman left home at the age of sixteen, his father's death having reduced the family to poverty. taught school for a year at the Kanawha Salt Works in Kentucky, and used the money thus obtained to attend Transylvania University in Lexington. He then obtained employment as a scribe at a court in Frankfort, Kentucky, and read law under the supervision of Judge Jesse Bledsoe.

Personal life and death Coleman was a conspicuous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His wife, a native of South Carolina, survived her husband many years, and died at Athens, February 14, 1885. Their children included Reverend James L. Coleman; Daniel Coleman, an attorney; John Hartwell Coleman, also an attorney; Richard H. Coleman, who was killed during the American Civil War; and Dr. Ruffin Coleman, who studied medicine at the University of Nashville, Tennessee.

Coleman died at Athens at the age of 56.