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and Spokane County Washington."  Vol. 2.  S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912.  

EDWIN TRUMAN COMAN

	The position of Edwin Truman Coman in banking circles in Washington is
indicated in the fact that he is the youngest man ever elected to the presidency
of the State Bankers Association, which honor came to him in 1905. His active
connection with banking interests is now broad and includes the presidency of
the Exchange National Bank of Spokane, in which city he is now making his home.
He came to the coast from the middle west, his birth having occurred in
Kankakee, Illinois, May 25, 1869. His father, Daniel Franklin Coman, was a
representative of one of the old families of Massachusetts and wedded Rosilla J.
Thresher, whose ancestors were among the early settlers of New Hampshire.
	Edwin T. Coman pursued his early education in the public schools of his
native town and afterward attended the Michigan State University at Ann Arbor
and also the Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia. He was
admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Virginia, and later in Illinois and
Washington. He then continued in active practice until twenty-seven years of age
and in the meantime he had removed westward to Washington having, in 1894',
settled in Colfax, Whitman county. In 1897 he was chosen cashier of the First
National Bank of Colfax, whose business was developed from a deposit of less
than one hundred thousand dollars to a half million in a few years. In 1905 the
First National Bank and the Colfax National Bank were consolidated and of the
new institution Mr. Coman became the vice president and manager. His ability in
banking was becoming widely recognized in financial circles, and in 1907 he was
elected as vice president and manager of the Exchange National Bank of Spokane
and removed to this city, where he has since made his home. In the intervening
period he has been elected to the presidency of the bank and his connections
also include the presidency of the First Savings & Trust Bank of Whitman county,
of the Bank of Endicott, the Bank of Rosalia, Plummer State Bank of Plummer,
Idaho, and the vice presidency of the National Bank of Palouse. Mr. Coman has
made many public addresses principally on financial subjects. He has spoken
before the Bankers Association of Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and three times before
the association of Washington. In 1908 he was elected trustee of the Chamber of
Commerce, which position he held until 1911, when he was elected president. He
is also president of the council of Spokane College.
	On the 10th of March, 1897, Mr. Coman was married to Miss Ruth Martin, a
daughter of Robert and Catherine (Tull) Martin, of Carrolton, Missouri, the
former of whom was a pioneer banker. They now have three children, Edwin Truman,
born May 18, 1903; Robert Martin, born December 31, 1905; and Catherine, born
July 11, 1909. Mr. Coman holds membership in St. Paul's Cathedral of Spokane and
he is a member of its vestry. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons and
has attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite, also holding degrees
as Knight Templar and in the Mystic Shrine. From his college days he holds
membership in the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, Virginia Beta Chapter. His social
nature finds expression in his membership in the Spokane, Spokane Athletic,
Spokane Country, Inland and University Clubs.

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