Edwin W. Colman ’27

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Edwin W. Colman died Mar. 24, 1996, at Hartland, Wis. Ed left Princeton in Sept. 1926 and got his MBA from Canard Business School in 1930. He then worked for Bethlehem Steel Co. in Johnstown, Pa., and for the Crane Co. in Washington, D.C. Later, he moved to Chicago and became president of the Inland Sugar Co. in Milwaukee.

In 1936 he married Elizabeth Wheeler, daughter of Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana, by whom he had four children. To them the class extends its deep sympathy.

The Class of 1927

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