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John Marvin Colaw

Birth	:	16 Mar 1860 Highland County, Virginia, USA
Death	:	26 Feb 1940 Monterey, Highland County, Virginia, USA
Burial	:	Monterey Cemetery, Monterey, Highland County, USA
Coordinate	:	38.4160490, -79.5830940
Description	:	Highland Recorder March 1, 1940 John M. Colaw, dean of the Highland Bar died at his home of a heart attack Monday morning February 26, at two o'clock. He had been feeling unusually well until a week prior to his death. He was seventy-nine years eleven months and ten days at the time of his passing. He was a son of Cornelius Colaw and Mrs. Mary Newman Colaw, a well known pioneer family, was born and reared in Crabbottom. John M. Colaw manifested unusual intellectual gifts and a strong desire for study as a boy. He attended Monterey High School, did... Read More	Highland Recorder March 1, 1940 John M. Colaw, dean of the Highland Bar died at his home of a heart attack Monday morning February 26, at two o'clock. He had been feeling unusually well until a week prior to his death. He was seventy-nine years eleven months and ten days at the time of his passing. He was a son of Cornelius Colaw and Mrs. Mary Newman Colaw, a well known pioneer family, was born and reared in Crabbottom. John M. Colaw manifested unusual intellectual gifts and a strong desire for study as a boy. He attended Monterey High School, did the work of the freshman year in Roanoke College then entered Dickenson College in Pennsylvania, where he was graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1832 and 1885 received the Master of Arts degree there. The following two years he was a student of law in the University of Virginia and was admitted to the bar by Judge McLaughlin. He had specialized in mathematics in college and in 1884 he and B.F. Finkel founded the American Mathematical Monthly and for nine years he was co-editor. In the preparation of mathematical text books he has been joint author with J.V. Elwood, F.W. Duke and Dr. J.K. Powers. They are credited with some thirteen books, first was published in 1900 the last in 1914. The Colaw Arithmetic and Algebra have been extensively used and have brought Mr. Colaw considerable income in royalties. Mr. Colaw also had important interests in real estate and was a successful live stock farmer. He has served the county in a number of places of trust and responsibility as Commonwealth Attorney, Commissioner of Accounts to the Circuit Court, Town Mayor and Councilman several terms. He had been chairman of the board of directors of the First & Citizens Bank; had served on the county school board; had been secretary and treasurer of the Monterey Water company had a interest in the Monterey Electric Power company when lights were first installed here. On Oct. 21, 1886 Mr. Colaw married Miss Josie M. Judy of Pendleton county, who died in 1893. By this union two children were born, Owen D. & Joseph M. the former a graduate of Washington and Lee University now with the Engineering Department of the Southern Railway with residence in Cincinnati. The later educated at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and was with the Engineering Department of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway for some time, before entering the cattle and lumber business with residence here. Mr. Colaw’s second marriage was to Miss Elizabeth J. Gibson daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Gibson of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Colaw lived on East Main street until her death. A few years after her death, Mr. Colaw's son and daughter-in-law Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Colaw returned to Monterey to be with him after living several years in Chicago, Boston and Washington. In addition to his two sons, he is survived by one sister, Mrs. Ludie M. Snyder of Crabbottom, and other relatives. Author of a series of arithmetic books printed by Johnson Publishing.

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John Marvin Colaw death on 26 Feb 1940 in Monterey, Highland County, Virginia, USA
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Latitude: 38.4160490
Longitude: -79.5830940

Family Members:

Parent

Cornelius McKinley Colaw

(1819 - 1900)

Mary Elizabeth Newman Colaw

(1820 - 1895)

Spouse

Josephine Margaret “Josie” Judy Colaw

(1864 - 1893)

Elizabeth Jane “Lizzie” Gibson Colaw

(1865 - 1931)

Siblings

Anderson Newman Colaw

(1846 - 1933)

Jacob Walter Colaw

(1855 - 1863)

Louisa M. “Ludie” Colaw Snyder

(1865 - 1946)

Children

Corp Owen Dyer Colaw

(1887 - 1957)

Joseph Marvin Colaw

(1891 - 1972)

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