Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Coldren, John January 20, 1822 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 325
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    John Coldren was born January 20, 1822, in Washington 
township, Fayette county, Penna, was reared on a farm and 
educated in the common schools.  
    At the age of 21 years, he bought one half of the Red 
Lion store on Redstone Creek, engaged in merchandising for 
one year when he bough half interest in Arnold's Mills 
located a short distance from Fayette City, and operated 
them up to a year ago when he sold the property, and is at 
present engaged with a mill company at Fayette City.
    He was married March 4, 1863, to Lurena Gould, a native 
of the county, a daughter of John Gould and Jane Trainor 
Gould, the former a native of Maine, and was one of the 
pioneer school teachers of the county.
    John Coldren had no children of his own, but has raised 
two adopted ones: Frank Bean and Minnie Sample.  Minnie 
married Robert W Hall.  
    Mr Coldren and wife are members of the Disciples church. 
 He is a member of the F & A M, and owns a comfortable home 
containing ten acres of ground near Fayette City.  He has 
held several township offices, and is a sober, industrious 
and upright citizen.
    His parents were Jesse Coldren and Anna Stephens 
Coldren.  His father was born in Maryland and removed from 
there with his parents to Virginia, and subsequently while 
he was yet a young man to Pennsylvania.  He learned scythe 
and sickle making with Samuel Cope.  Anna Stephens was the 
daughter of Levi Stephens.  The Coldren family were 
originally Quakers.  

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