From collection Member List
EDUCATION: Frank Coleman enrolled at The University of Georgia in the fall of 1872. Member, Kappa Deuteron Chapter, Phi Gamma Delta. The University of Georgia Class of 1876, though did not participate in commencement exercises for his class. Among the archival records of Phi Gamma Delta are notes reporting that Coleman along with fellow Georgia Phi Gamma Delta’s Osborne Stone Barnett, Frederick Ball Pope and Samuel Alonzo Reid were delegates to the Fraternity’s 1873 Convention in New York City.
Coleman’s father was President of the Board of Trustees of Columbus’s school, among the members of the city’s first fire department and an Alderman for the city of Columbus.
CAREER: Brother Coleman was the principal in the wholesale and retail dry goods dealer, Hopson & Coleman of Opelika, Alabama, a “purveyor of boots and shoes and general merchandise.”
According to his obituary in The Enquirer-Sun, Columbus, Georgia, April 28, 1891, p. 4: “He leaves a wife but no children.” The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Tuesday, April 28, 1891, p. 2: “He was buried today by the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of Honor and the Masons, of which orders he was an active member.”
Coleman’s father was President of the Board of Trustees of Columbus’s school, among the members of the city’s first fire department and an Alderman for the city of Columbus.
CAREER: Brother Coleman was the principal in the wholesale and retail dry goods dealer, Hopson & Coleman of Opelika, Alabama, a “purveyor of boots and shoes and general merchandise.”
According to his obituary in The Enquirer-Sun, Columbus, Georgia, April 28, 1891, p. 4: “He leaves a wife but no children.” The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Tuesday, April 28, 1891, p. 2: “He was buried today by the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of Honor and the Masons, of which orders he was an active member.”
