Collins, Patrick A
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born March 12, 1844, in Ireland. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Chelsea, Mass., and graduated from the Harvard law school. He is a successful lawyer of Boston, Mass.; was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1868-69; of the Massachusetts senate in 1870-71; and in 1875 was judge advocate-general of Massachusetts. He was a representative in the forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses, and served on various important committees. During 1893-97 he was consul-general of the United States at London, England.