Biography:

Attorney, banker. Born– November 13, 1894, Jasper. Parents– E. W. and Nancy (Shields) Coleman. Married– Gertrude Davidson, July 7, 1921 (died 1924). Married– May Steiner, April 28, 1928. Children–one. Married– Dorothy H. Morrow, July 14, 1970. Education– University of Alabama, LL.B., 1915. Admitted to the Alabama Bar, 1915.  U. S. Army, WWI.  Practiced law in Birmingham, 1920-1937; served as president of Birmingham Trust National Bank, 1937-1958. Director of the Birmingham Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Served as president of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, 1941. Member American Bankers Association;  Newcomen Society. Died March 11, 1972.

Source:

Marquis Who’s Who online and Library of Alabama Lives.

Publication(s):

Josiah Morris, 1818-1891; Montgomery Banker Whose Faith Built Birmingham. New York; Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, 1948.