Collens, Thomas Wharton – Collins, Isaac
Collens, Thomas Wharton
jurist, author, was born June 23, 1812, in New Orleans, La. He was a well-known jurist of New Orleans, who wrote The Martyr Patriots, a tragedy; Humanics; Views of the Labour Movement; and The Eden of Labour. He died Nov. 3, 1879, in New Orleans, La.
Colles, Christopher
engineer, philosopher, was born about 1738, in Ireland. During the war of 1812 he was the projector and attendant of the telegraph erected on Castle Clinton. He is said to have built the first steam engine in America.
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.
Collier, Charles A
banker, was born July 1, 1848, in Atlanta, Ga. In 1887 he was president of the Piedmont exposition; alderman of that city in 1888; and was engaged extensively in mercantile and banking pursuits.
Collier, George X. M
lawyer, was born Sept. 27, 1838, in Claremont, N. H.
He attended the public schools, and graduated from the university of Michigan. He has attained prominence as one of the foremost lawyers of Michigan, and practices his profession at Detroit.
Collier, Henry Watkins
lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Jan. 17, 1801, in Lunenburg county, Va. He was judge of the circuit court of Tuscaloosa, Ala., district from 1827 to 1837; chief justice of Alabama from 1837 to 1849; and governor from 1849 to 1853. He died Aug. 28, 1855, at Bailey's Springs, Ala.
Collier, John A
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1787 in Broome county, N. Y. He practiced law at Binghamton, was elected to congress as a Clay democrat, serving from 1831 till 1833; was state comptroller in 1845-46, and was commissioner to revise the code in 1847. He died March 24, 1873, in Binghamton, N. Y.
Collier, Joseph Avery
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 26, 1828, in Plymouth, Mass. He was a reformed Dutch clergyman of Kingston, N. Y.; and the author of The Right Way, or the Gospel Applied to the Intercourse of Individuals and Nations; The Christian Home; The Young Men of the Bible; Pleasant Paths for Little Feet; Little Crowns; and Dawn of Heaven. He died Aug. 13, 1864, in Kinderhook, N. Y.
Collier, Peter
chemist, author, was born Aug. 17, 1835, in Chittengo, N.
Y. He is a chemist of distinction for several years attached to the department of agriculture at Washington; and the author of Sorghum, Its Culture and Manufacture Economically Considered; and Investigations of Sorghum as a Sugar Producing Plant.
Collier, Robert Laird
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 7, 1837, in Salisbury, Md. He was a unitarian clergyman who in his later years was a London correspondent of the New York Herald; and the author of Every-Day Subjects in Sunday Sermons; Meditations on the Essence of Christianity; Henry Irving: a Sketch and a Criticism; and English Home Life. He died July 28, 1890, in Salisbury, Md.
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, Ela
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 14, 1786, in Meriden, Conn.
He was for twenty years district attorney, displaying ability as an advocate, and during the latter part of his life devoted much attention to farming. He commanded a regiment of militia near Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., in 1814; represented Lewis county in the legislature of the state, and in 1821 was a member of the state constitutional convention. He was in congress from New York from 1823 to 1825. He died Nov. 23, 1848, in Lowville, Conn.
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, Frank W
lawyer, lecturer, was born Feb. 9, 1860, in Pompey Hill, N. Y. He attended the Dryden Union school and academy, and graduated from the Syracuse university. During 1894-96 he was president of the Nebraska Republican league, and has been assistant prosecuting attorney of Lincoln, Neb. During the campaign of 1896 he was kept in constant service by the national republican committee, and lectured in the principal cities of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and Nebraska, and his lectures generally abound with an inexhaustible fund of wit.
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, Gilbert
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 26, 1846, in Stonington, Conn. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools; and was prepared by David Hart, A. M., for Yale college. He has attained success as one of the foremost lawyers of the east, and has large practice in Jersey City, N. J., of which city he was mayor during 1884- 86. In 1897 he was a appointed a justice of the supreme court of New Jersey, and his decisions have shown great judicial ability and learning.
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.
Collins, Isaac
publisher, was born Feb. 16, 1746, in Delaware. In 1770 he was appointed public printer in New Jersey, and removed to Burlington. In 1771 he began the publication of an almanac, which he issued annually for more than twenty years. In 1778 he removed to Trenton, and there printed 5,000 copies of a family Bible that was remarkably free from typographical errors. He died March 21, 1817, in Burlington, N. J.