Collins, Jeremiah Buckley – Colt, Le Baron Bradford
Collins, Jeremiah Buckley
lawyer, legislator, was born April 2, 1865, at Renovo, Pa. In 1890 he graduated from the northern Indiana law school, and three years later was elected a member of the Indiana legislature.
Collins, John
governor. He was governor of Delaware from 1820 to his death, which occurred April 15, 1822, in Wilmington, Del.
Collins, John
congressman, governor, was born June 8, 1717. He was governor of Rhode Island from 1786 to 1789. He was a patriot of the revolution, a delegate to the old congress from 1778 to 1783, and a signer of the articles of confederation. He was elected a representative in congress in 1789. He died March 8, 1795, in Newport, R. I.
Collins, Lewis
journalist, jurist, was born Dec. 25, 1797. He was proprietor and editor of the Maysville Eagle for twenty-seven years, and from 1851-54 was first presiding judge of the Mason county court. He died Jan. 29, 1870, in Lexington. Ky.
Collins, Lorin Warren
soldier, state legislator, jurist, was born in 1838 in Lowell, Mass. He moved to Minnesota in 1854; served through the civil war in the seventh Minnesota, and was brevetted captain in 1865. He was county attorney of Stearns county for ten years; and a member of the Minnesota house of representatives in 1881-83. In 1883 he was appointed judge of the seventh judicial district; and was elected the following year. Since 1887 he has been associate justice of the supreme court.
Collins, Napoleon
naval officer, was born May 4, 1814, in Pennsylvania.
He entered the navy as midshipman in 1840, attained the rank of rear-admiral, and in 1874 was made commander of the Pacific squadron. He died June 7, 1875, in Washington, D. C.
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.
Collins, Spencer
lawyer, was born April 10, 1861, near Glenville, W. Va.
In 1883 he graduated from the Glenville State Normal school, and subsequently engaged in educational work. In 1887 he was admitted to the bar and has become prominent in his profession in his native city.
Collins, Thomas
soldier, jurist, governor, was born in 1732, in Delaware.
He was a member of the council for four years; brigadier-general of militia from 1776 to 1783; a member of the assembly, and chief justice of the court of common pleas; and was governor of Delaware from 1786 to 1789. He died March 29, 1789, near Ducks Creek, Del.
Collins, Thomas Wharton
soldier, lawyer, jurist, author, was born June 23, 1812, in New Orleans, La. He was reporter and clerk of the state senate in 1834, then edited the True American.
He was district attorney for the Orleans district in 1840-42; judge of the city court in 1842-46, a member of the constitutional convention in 1852, and in 1856 was elected judge of the first district court of New Orleans. In 1867 he was made judge of the seventh district court. He was the author of a tragedy called The Martyr Patriots, which was successfully performed; also of Humanics; The Eden of Labor; and essays on sociology, ethics, and politics, published in periodicals. He died Nov. 3, 1879.
Collins, Truman D
railroad president, was born March 7, 1831, in Cortland, N. Y. Since 1891 he has been president of the Tronesta Valley and Hickory railroad at Nebraska, Pa.
Collins, Mrs. W. Leslie
poet. She is the author of a volume entitled Sea Waifs and Other Poems.
Collins, William
lawyer, congressman, was born in Oneida county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1849, and was district attorney for Lewis county until he removed to Cleveland, Ohio.
Collins, Zaccheus
philanthropist, was born Aug. 26, 1764, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a member of the society of Friends, a promoter of the advancement of the natural sciences, and an officer or member of many philosophical, humane and religious societies.
Collyer, Robert
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 8, 1823, in England. He is a unitarian clergyman of New York and one of the leading men among the clergy of his faith. He was born in Yorkshire, and learned the blacksmith's trade, which he still followed after coming to America in 1849. He was then a Wesleyan local preacher, but his views changing he became a unitarian, and in 1860 founded Unity church in Chicago, over which he remained pastor until he went to New York in 1879. His influence, both within and without the unitarian body, has been very great. He is the author of The Life that Now Is; Nature and Life; A Man in Earnest; The Simple Truth, a Home Book; Lectures to Young Men and Women; History of Ilkley, in Yorkshire.
Colman, Benjamin
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 19, 1673, in Boston, Mass. He was a famous congregational minister of Boston, whose theological views were much more liberal than those of his contemporaries, and whose literary style was far more polished and flexible.
Evangelical Sermons Collected; Twenty Sacramental Sermons. He died Aug. 29, 1747, in Boston, Mass.
Colman, Elihu
attorney, legislator, was born May 11, 1841, in Oneida, Wis.
He graduated from the Lawrence university in 1865, and was elected to the Wisconsin legislature in 1872. He was United States district attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin during President Harrison's administration.
Colman, Henry
author, was born Sept. 12, 1785, in Boston, Mass. He was an agricultural writer of Massachusetts, who was a congregational minister at Hingham, 1807-20, and afterwards a unitarian minister at Salem; and the author of Report on Silk Culture; European Agriculture and Rural Economy; Agriculture and Rural Economy of France, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland; and European Life and Manners. He died Aug. 14, 1849, in England.
Colman, Henry
clergyman, was born May 14, 1834, in Bridport, Vt. He is an eminent clergyman of the methodist episcopal church, and since 1868 has been trustee of the Lawrence university of Appleton, Wis.
Colman, Norman J
journalist, lawyer, state legislator, was born in 1827, near Richfield Springs, N. Y. He moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1853, and founded Colman's Rural World, an agricultural paper. He was elected a member of the board of aldermen for the city of St.
Louis in 1855, and was elected a representative in the legislature of Missouri in 1865. He was elected lieutenant-governor of Missouri in 1874, and was president of the Missouri State Horticultural society. In 1885 he was appointed United States commissioner of agriculture.
Colman, Samuel
painter, was born in 1832, in Portland, Me. He began early to sketch from nature in and around New York, where his father was a publisher, and became a pupil of Asher B. Durand.
His studio is in New York, and he was the first president of the American water color society. His pictures include Bay of Gibraltar; Misty Afternoon in Venice; Ruins of Mosque in Algeria; and Tower of Giralda.
Colquillard, Alexis
manufacturer, capitalist, was born April 27, 1825, in Detroit, Mich. He kept on increasing his landed possessions until 1865, when he established the Colquillard Wagon works of South Bend, Ind.
Colquitt, Alfred Holt
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, governor, was born April 20, 1824, in Walton county, Ga. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1853 to 1855; and was a presidential elector in 1860. He entered the confederate army as colonel, and, by distinguished gallantry, won promotion to the rank of major-general. He was elected governor of Georgia in 1876 by the largest majority ever received by a candidate in that state, and continued in office, by re-election, until 1882, when he was elected a senator of the United States from Georgia for the term of six years; and received the re-election in 1888 and served until 1895.
Colquitt, Walter T
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 27, 1799, in Halifax county, Va. He served as a brigadier-general of militia at the age of twenty-one, and in 1826 was appointed a district judge, and held the first court ever held in Columbus.
He was appointed to the same office in 1829, and was a member of the state senate in 1834 and 1837. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1839 to 1843; and a senator in congress from 1843 to 1849. He died May 7, 1855, in Macon, Ga.
Colson, David Grant
lawyer, congressman, was born April 1, 1861, at Yellow Creek, Ky. In 1887 he was elected to the Kentucky house of representatives, session of 1887-88; and was the republican nominee for state treasurer in 1889. He was elected mayor of Middlesboro in 1893, for four years, which position he resigned to accept a seat in the fiftyfourth congress; and was re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Colston, Edward
congressman, was born in 1788, in Berkeley county, Va.
He served for a long time as magistrate of the county, and in the capacity of high sheriff. He was frequently a member of the state legislature, and was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1817 to 1819. He died April 23, 1851.
Colt, Le Baron Bradford
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born June 25, 1846, in Dedham, Mass. He was a representative in the state legislature of Rhode Island in 1879 and 1880, and in 1881 was appointed United States district judge for the district of Rhode Island.