Colman, Norman J
journalist, lawyer, state legislator, was born in 1827, near Richfield Springs, N. Y. He moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1853, and founded Colman's Rural World, an agricultural paper. He was elected a member of the board of aldermen for the city of St.
Louis in 1855, and was elected a representative in the legislature of Missouri in 1865. He was elected lieutenant-governor of Missouri in 1874, and was president of the Missouri State Horticultural society. In 1885 he was appointed United States commissioner of agriculture.