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Welcome To Sullivan County, Indiana
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JAMES O. COLLINSJAMES O. COLLINS was born in Jefferson County, Ky., February 21, 1826, one of nine children born to William S. and Mary (Hoke) Collins, who came from Kentucky with their family and settled in Haddon Township in 1837, where they have since made their home. Our subject received but a limited education, and began farming in early life, which he has always followed. December 16, 1852, he married Sarah Watson, and nine children have been born to them--Finley O., Lydia E., Olive M., Robert L. D., Dudley O., Eugene L. and Allene C. (twins), Orney L. and Walter S., all living but Allene and Walter. Mr. Collins has been quite successful in life, and now owns 169 acres of good land, well improved and in a high state of cultivation. Both Mr. and Mrs. Collins are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is a Democrat, and one of the most influential citizens of his township. The father of Mr. Collins is one of the oldest and best known citizens of Sullivan, and was one of the sixteen gentlemen who came up so nobly and raised the $30,000 for the purpose of taking the E. & T. H. Railroad to Carlisle. He was a native of Somerset County, Md., and was born May 30, 1799, locating in Kentucky in 1818. Mrs. Collins, his wife, was born December 4, 1797, in Kentucky, and was of Pennsylvania Dutch descent. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and her death occurred May 25, 1865. Mr. Collins has been an Elder in the Presbyterian Church for over forty-five years, and is now enjoying the evening of a well-sent life.HADDON TWP. PAGE 749 FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC. ILLUSTRATED. 1884, CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. |
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