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 I-IERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. In 1887-1901 he was associate justice of tlie supreme court of Minnesota. Collins, Michael F., journalist, educator, state senator, was born Sept. 27, 1854, In Troy, N.Y. In 1886-87 he was a member of the New York state assembly; and was a member of the state senate in 1888-90 and 1894-95. Since 1879 he has been editor and proprietor of the Troy Observer. 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.

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died June

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1S75, in Washington, D.C.

William,

lawyer,

congressman,

was born in Oneida county, N.Y. In 1847-49 he was a representative from New York to the thirtieth congress; and was district attorney for Lewis county until he removed to Cleveland, Ohio. He died in Cleveland, Ohio. Collins, William Henry, astronomer, author, was born in 1859 in Peekskill, N.Y. In 1902-04 he was director of Haverford college astronomical observatory; and since 1905 has been superintendent of buildings and groimds of Haverford college. Pa. He is the author of Proceedings of Haverford College Observatory. 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 oificer or member of many philosophical, humane and religious societies. He died in Philadelphia, Pa. CoUis, Charles H. T., soldier, lawyer, was born Feb. 4, 1838, in Ireland. During the civil war lie attained the rank of majorgeneral. He served two terms as city solicitor of Philadelphia, Pa. For several years he was commissioner of public works in New York City. He died in 1902 in New York City.

CoUitz,

Hermann, educator, author, was

born Feb. 4, 1855, in Germany. Since 1897 he has been professor of comparative philology and German at Bryn Mawr college. He is the author of several German works. Collins, Patrick A., lawyer, legislator, diplomat, congressman, was born March la, 1844, in Ireland. He is a noted lawyer of Boston, Mass.; was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 186869; of the Massachusetts senate in 1870-71; and in 1875 was judge advocate-general of Massachusetts. In 1883-89 he was a representative to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses. In 1893-97 he was consul-general of the United States at London, England. He died Sept. 14, 1905, in Hot Springs, Va. CoUins, Thomas, soldier, jurist, governor, was born in 1732 in Delaware. He was a member of the council for four years briga;

dier-general of militia in 1776-83; a mem"ber of the assembly and chief justice of the

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common pleas. He was republican governor of Delaware in 1786-89. He died March 29, 1789, near Ducks Creek, Del. Collins, Thomas Wharton, soldier, lawyer, jurist, author, was born June 23, 1813, in New Orleans, La. He was district attorney for the Orleans district in '1840-42; judge of the city court in 1842-46; and a member of the constitutional convention in 1852. In 1856 he was elected judge of the first district court of New Orleans; and in 1867 was made judge of the seventh district court. He was the author of a tragedy called The court of

Patriots, which was successfully performed; also of Humanics; and The Eden of Labor. He died Nov. 3, 1879. Collins, Trunian 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,

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Pa. Collins, Mrs. W. Leslie, poet. She is the author of Sea Waifs and Other Poems. CoUyer, Robert, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 8, 1823, in Yorkshire, England. He is a, unitarian clergyman of New York; and one of the leading men among the cler-

of his faith. He 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 he

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founded Unity church in Chicago, over which he remained pastor until he went to New York City in 1879. 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; and Things New and Old. Colman, Benjamin, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 19, 1673, in Boston, Mass. He was a famous congregational minister of Boston. He was the author of Evangelical Sermons Collected; Twenty Sacramental Sermons. He died Aug. 29, 1747, in Boston, Mass. Colman, Henry, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 2, 1785, in Boston, Mass. He

was a congregational minister at Hingham in 1807-20; and afterward a. unitarian minister at Salem. He was 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 Man-

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died Aug. 14, 1849, in England. Norman J., journalist, lawyer, legislator, lieutenant governor, was born May 16, 1837 near Richfield Springs, N.Y. He moved to St. Louis in 1853, and founded Colman's Rural World. He was elected a member of the board of aldermen in 1855; and was elected a representative in the legislature of Missouri in 1865. He was lieutenant-governor of Missouri in 1874-78; and was president of the Missouri state horticultural society. In 1885 he was appointed United States commissioner of agriculture; ners.

Colman,