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Daughter of Senator William McKendree Gwin and Mary E. Gwin. Spent some time in Europe during the American Civil War due to her father's pro-slavery sympathies. Here she met her future husband Evan J. Coleman. Spent the remainder of her life in California where her husband worked in her father's mines and later with the Pacific Transfer Company.  Frances "Fanny" Seward references her in her 1860 diary as admiring a bonnet that Fanny had ordered from Mrs. B.E. Gittings Fancy Shop in Washington, D.C.

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Biography: 
Daughter of Senator William McKendree Gwin and Mary E. Gwin. Spent some time in Europe during the American Civil War due to her father's pro-slavery sympathies. Here she met her future husband Evan J. Coleman. Spent the remainder of her life in California where her husband worked in her father's mines and later with the Pacific Transfer Company. Frances "Fanny" Seward references her in her 1860 diary as admiring a bonnet that Fanny had ordered from Mrs. B.E. Gittings Fancy Shop in Washington, D.C.
Citation Type: 
Newspaper Article
Journal or Newspaper Title: 
San Francisco Call
Article Title: 
"Evan J. Coleman Kills Himself at his Home"
Month: 
July
Day: 
22
Year: 
1902
Start Page: 
1
Citation Notes: 
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19020722.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
Citation for Birth Info:
Citation Type: 
Website
Citation URL: 
ancestry.com
Title of Webpage: 
Ancestry
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Website Last Modified Date: 
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Citation Notes: 
Source Citation Year: 1900; Census Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Page: 5; Enumeration District: 0250; FHL microfilm: 1240106 Source Information Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.
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Citation Type: 
Website
Citation URL: 
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73820624/lucy-coleman
Title of Webpage: 
Lucy Gwin Coleman - Find A Grave
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