Background
Coleman, Leighton was born on May 3, 1837 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Review John C. (Doctor of Divinity) and Louisa Margaretta (Thomas) C.
Coleman, Leighton was born on May 3, 1837 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Review John C. (Doctor of Divinity) and Louisa Margaretta (Thomas) C.
Graduate General Theological Seminary, New York, 1861. (Master of Arts, Trinity, 1865. Doctor of Laws, Hobart, 1888.
South.T.D., Racine, 1875).
He served his religion in a variety of positions and at different places. He was rector of churches in Bustleton, Pennsylvania, Wilmington, Delaware, Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, Toledo, Ohio, and Sayre, Pennsylvania He lived in England from 1879 to 1887.
Bishop Coleman was Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Pennsylvania and prelate of the Knights Templar, Chaplain General of the Society of the War of 1812, Chaplain of the Delaware Society of the Cincinnati, and Vice President of the Delaware Historical Society.
He was elected a thirty-third degree Mason by the Consistory in Boston in September 1907.
Married 1861, Frances Elizabeth, daughter