Coleman, Julia
temperance reformer, philanthropist, was born Feb. 16, in Fulton county, N. Y. For upward of twenty years she has studied the subject of alcohol in all its phases, and is at the front in the scientific educational temperance work, being author of leading scientific text books for both old and young.
Her conferences, conducted in connection with grove camp meetings, are very largely attended and exert a wide influence.
COLEMAN, LEIGHTON, clergyman, bishop, author, was born May 3, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was educated at the Episcopal academy of Philadelphia, and the General Theological seminary of New York city. He was rector in several parishes; and in 1888 was consecrated protestant episcopal bishop of Delaware.
In 1896 he founded the Sisterhood of All Angels, whose mother house is in Wilmington, Del. He is also chaplain-general of the Society of the War of 1812, and chaplain of the Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati. He is the author of The Church in America, a history of the American episcopal church; and various other works.