Collett, John
geologist, state senator, jurist, was born Jan. 6, 1828, in Eugene, Ind. He was state senator in 1871; assistant state geologist in 1870-78; a member of the state house commission in 1878-79; chief of the bureau of statistics and geology in 1879-80; and geologist in 1881-85. From 1870 till 1879 he published annually his reports as assistant geologist, and as geologist from 1881 till 1884, and for the years 1879 and 1880 reports of the bureau of statistics and geology. COLLIER, MRS. ADA LANGWORTHY, author, poet, was born in 1843 in Iowa.
She is a writer of Dubuque, whose Lilith, the Legend of the First Woman, is a poem of merit.