Business Career of C.H. Coleman May 29, 1949 Henderson Co., TX

Athens Weekly Review
May 29, 1941
BUSINESS CAREER OF C. H. COLEMAN ONE OF SUCCESS
(the initials in the title are C. H., in the article they are C. M.)

C. M. Coleman started his business career in Athens in 1892 when
he purchased a one-half interest in a small horse-power brick plant
owned by his uncle, the late H. M. Morrison, a Confederate soldier,
who had been operating the plant since 1882. Mr. Morrison died
in 1899 and C. H. Coleman purchased his interest and continued
the business alone until it was incorporated.

He has enjoyed such business success as has come to few men in
the history of Henderson county, as the enterprise established
before the turn of the century grew into one of East Texas' largest
industries before it was sold to the Harbison Walker Refractories
Company about a year ago. Although his company retained the
Garrison, Texas, plant where they manufacture all kinds of building
materials, Mr. Coleman launched a new enterprise, the Coleman &
Shelton Insurance Agency. Mr. G. I. Shelton, for many years
associated with the Athens Brick & Title Company, is a partner in
this new and thriving firm. Mr. Coleman remains active in both the
management of the Garrison plant and the new insurance agency.
The agency office, as well as the office of the Garrison brick plant,
operating in the name of Athens Brick & Title Company, are
located in the Coleman building which houses the Farmers &
Merchants State Bank.

Mr. Coleman's lifelong residence here has not been confined solely
to business, however, for he has found time to serve his city as mayor,
his church (The First Presbyterian) as a leading member, the Masonic
lodge as its Worshipful Master and to engage in scores of other civic
activities in positions of leadership. He is a native of Henderson county
and was born on a farm about four miles south of Athens on August 18, 1869.
He devoted the early years of his business career to the establishment of the
Athens Brick & Tile Company, one of the major industries of this section.
The firm was incorporated and stock sold in 1917 and before it was sold a
year ago it had attained high rank in the ceramic industry of the South.

Mr. Shelton has been a leader of the First Christian church of
Athens for many years. In recent years he attained some fame in
his own right as a horticulturist. His strawberries produced on his
acreage near the city, top the strawberry market for quality. This
avocation occupies much of the time, he is not devoting to the
expanding business firm on Coleman & Shelton.

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