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Henry Colman was born on September 12, 1785, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Dudley and Mary (Jones) Colman.
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Henry Colman was born on September 12, 1785, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Dudley and Mary (Jones) Colman.
Colman graduated from Dartmouth College in 1805, studied theology under the Reverend James Freeman of Boston and the Reverend John Pierce of Brookline, Massachusetts, and on June 17, 1807, was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Dedham, Massachusetts.
Colman was a minister of Congregational Church in Dedham from 1807 till 1820. In 1820 he published a volume of sermons, Sermons on Various Occasions, widely circulated in this country and reprinted in England. Until 1825 he taught a school in Boston. He gave vigorous expression to his Unitarian views in controversy with Trinitarians. An attempt to place him over a church in Salem, Massachusetts, creating a dissension, his followers withdrew and organized the Independent Congregational Church in Barton Square. A church edifice was built, where he was installed pastor in February 1825. Here he served until 1831 when, partly because of impaired health, he resigned. In 1833 he published a second volume of sermons, Sermons on Various Subjects Preached at the Church in Barton Square, Salem.
Having a decided taste for farming, Colman took a farm in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and proceeded to give practically his entire attention to agriculture. His published articles and addresses on that subject soon attracted attention. Appointed commissioner by Governor Edward Everett in 1837 to make an agricultural survey, he visited all parts of the state and extended his inquiries into neighboring states. Much valuable material was secured, presented in four reports covering over 1, 100 pages, printed by the state from 1838 to 1841.
In 1843 Colman published a treatise on raising swine which is included in H. L. Ellsworth’s Improvements in Agricultural Arts of the United States. His experience in the survey of Massachusetts had admirably equipped him for a larger project. In April 1843 he went to England and spent three and one-half years in studying the agricultural conditions of Great Britain. In November 1846 he went to the Continent and made similar studies in France, Holland, Switzerland, and Italy, returning to England in 1848, and to America in the fall of that year. The report of the agricultural survey is partly contained in his European Agriculture and Rural Economy from Personal Observation. The first edition appeared in 1844, a second in 1849, a third in 1850 in two volumes containing 972 pages, and three further editions were issued, the sixth in 1857. There was, also, separately printed, Agriculture and Rural Economy in France, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland (London, 1848). After his return Colman published European Life and Manners in Familiar Letters to Friends.
His health now failed and his eyesight became impaired. Hoping to improve his physical condition, he went to England, but without benefit. He died in Islington, now a part of London.
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Colmad was an honorary member of Royal Agriculture Society of Great Britain.
Colman was tall and well proportioned, of commanding presence, active mind, and keen intelligence. Although not without faults of temper, he displayed great kindness of heart.
Colman was married in August, 1807, to Mary, daughter of Thomas Harris of Charlestown, Massachusetts.