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Collier, Thomas S – Collins, Holdridge Ozro
Collier, Thomas S
naval officer, physician, poet, was born Nov. 14, 1842, in New York city. He entered the American navy at an early age, in which he served through the civil war, and was retired in 1883. His poems have appeared in many standard publications, which have been collected in one complete volume, entitled Song Spray. He died in 1893.
Collin, John F
state legislator, congressman, was born April 30, 1802, in Hillsdale, N. Y. He served in the state legislature in 1834; was a member of the county board of supervisors; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1845 to 1847.
Collins, Charles
educator, clergyman, author, was born April 17, 1813, in North Yarmouth, Maine. He was a methodist preacher and educator of Tennessee, who published Methodism and Calvinism Compared. He died July 10, 1875, in Memphis, Tenn.
Collins, Charles
merchant, was born April 2, 1817, in Blandford, Mass.
In 1842 he established a business in St.
Louis, Mo., and was also at the head of a large cotton manufactory in Glastonbury, Conn. After the war he closed his business in St. Louis and established a dry goods commission house in New York city, from which he retired in 1878. He died Nov. 30, 1891.
Collins, Clarence Lyman
was born Feb. 22, 1848, in Hartford, Conn. In 1878 he conducted a wholesale commission business under the firm name of Whitin and Collins; and in 1878 was elected a member of the chamber of commerce of New York city.
Collins, David Edward
banker, poet, was born May 8, 1850, in Scotland.
He is a banker of high standing in Oakland, Cal., where he now resides. He has written more than one hundred commendable poems that have received extensive publication in the University Journal and the periodical press generally.
Collins, Edward K
shipowner, was born Aug. 5, 1802, in Cape Cod, Mass.
He established the Dramatic line of sailing packets to Liverpool in 1836. The first steamer of the Collins line between New York and Liverpool sailed from New York on April 27, 1849. He died Jan. 22, 1878, in New York city.
Collins, Edwin Ralph
explorer, author, was born in 1859, in Newark, N.
J. He has traveled extensively and has attained prominence as an explorer of the Hudson Bay regions. He has been editor of the Texas Siftings, and is the author of several novels.
Collins, Francis D
lawyer, congressman, was born March 5, 1844, in Saugerties, N. Y. He was elected a district attorney in 1869; was elected to the state senate in 1872, 1873 and 1874, and in the latter year was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a democrat.
Collins, George J
soldier, was born Oct. 25, 1839, in New York city. He attained the rank of lieutenant in the civil war; in 1882 was elected alderman of the twenty-first ward of Brooklyn, and in 1890 postmaster of Brooklyn.
Collins, George T
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 10, 1842, in Scotland county, Mo. During the civil war he served in company F, forty-fifth Iowa infantry; and has since attained prominence as a noted lawyer of Memphis, Mo. He served with distinction as a member of the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-ninth general assemblies of Missouri.
Collins, Holdridge Ozro
lawyer, author, was born Dec. 10, 1844, in Cayuga county, N. Y. He was instrumental in the creation of the first regiment infantry, Illinois national guard, and he was one of the six captains who was first elected. He was promoted to lieutenantcolonel, and had a large command in Chicago during the railroad riots of 1877. In 1884 he published a history of the Illinois National Guards.