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William Wheeler Coleman, president of the Bucyrus Company of South Milwaukee, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, November 21, 1873, and is a son of William W. and Ellen Gibbons (Hiss) Coleman, who were also natives of Maryland, where their ancestors had lived through several generations. The father was a banker of Baltimore for many years, associated with the Farmers & Planters Bank as one of its officials. He died in 1890, having for some time survived his wife, who passed away in 1878.

William Wheeler Coleman was educated in public and private schools of Maryland and after completing his studies in Baltimore entered the Lehigh University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated as a metallurgical engineer in the class of 1895. He entered the employ of the Bethlehem Iron Company, now the Bethlehem Steel Company, with which he remained for a time, and later was with the Crucible Steel Company of America at Clairton, Pennsylvania. He was afterward with the Latrobe Steel Coupler Company at Melrose Park, Illinois, and in September, 1905, became identified with the Bucyrus Company, being elected to the presidency in 1911. This company is engaged in the manufacture of excavating machinery, including all kinds of dredges, steam, gas and electric shovels, drag lines, railway wrecking cranes, spreader plows, trench excavators, castings and forgings.

Mr. Coleman was married June 20, 1899, to Alice Frazier of South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and they have a daughter, Isabel. Mr. Coleman belongs to the Milwaukee Athletic Club, the Milwaukee Club, the Milwaukee Country Club and other clubs of this city and also has membership in the University Club of Chicago and the University Club of New York. During the war with Germany he was active in several war agencies and in 1918 went to Washington, D. C, as assistant to the chief of ordnance in charge of Artillery and Accessories.