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COLEMAN, Obed M., inventor, born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, 23 January, 1817; died in Saratoga, New York, 5 April, 1845. He was of German and English parentage, showed talent for music in infancy, and during a severe illness, in 1833, manifested wonderful inventive powers. About this time, when living in New Bedford, Massachusetts, he invented an "Automaton Lady Minstrel and Singing-Bird," consisting of the figure of a lady with a bird perched on her shoulder. The lady played several airs on an accordeon, while the bird warbled. Coleman sold this remarkable piece of mechanism for $800, thus relieving himself from extreme poverty. He removed to Saratoga in 1842, and invented improvements in the accordeon. He also began here to construct his 2Eolian attachment to the piano-forte, which gave him high rank among inventors. He sold his patent for 8100,000 in this country, and for about $10,000 in England.
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