Yolo County Biographies


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WATERMAN COLMAN
 
a fruit-raiser of Yolo County, is a son of Amiel and Elizabeth D. Colman, 
natives of Scituate, Massachusetts.  He was born and educated in that town, and 
in 1876 came to California by rail, first locating in Woodland.  He was soon 
employed by the United States Government as postal clerk, as one of the first on 
the road.  After operating in that capacity nine years and a half, he purchased 
the lot of ten acres where he now resides and raises some of the finest fruit in 
the county.
            He married Miss Loring, who was born in the State of Maine, February 
12, 1824, and they have one son, Edwin W.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler