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from two to five sons each. In 1819 came James Hunter, the first militia colonel; Jolin Hensley, the first Senator, with others, who located on the Missouri River, nine miles from the site of Jefferson City. In 1820 the lands of the county were opened for entry, and a large immigration began. In 1821 John Vivion and James Stark were ap- pointed judges, and opened the first county court April 2d, at the house of John Inglish. In 1822 the first elected judges, John Inglish, Reuben Smith and James Stark, took their seats. Marion was designated as the seat of justice, and order was made for the erec- tion of a courthouse and jail; the cost of the former was $748, and of the latter was $690. The north half of Marion Township was detached, being designated as Marion Township, and in 1823 Jefferson Township was created. February 3, 1829, the county court held its last session at Marion, the building selling for $450, and March 30th convened at the house of John C. Gordon, in Jefferson City, pursuant to a removal act of January 2Ist, and appropriated $900 for a jail. In 1831 the court occupied the State House, and in 1832 rented a building from R. W. Wells. In 1838 the new courthouse was occupied, built at a cost of $4,000, part of the realty being donated by the State. Judge David Todd held the first circuit court at the house of John Inglish, with Paul Whit- ley as sheriff, January 15, 1821. In 1824 Reuben Hall was indicted for murder, and sentenced to death, but the execution was deferred, and he was afterward pardoned. Judge Todd held the first term of court in Jefferson City, at the home of John C. Gor- don, February 20, 1829. In 1835 the first divorce case in the county was tried, that of Mary Hodges against Peter B. Hodges. Louis White and David Duaine, Canadians, were the first foreigners naturalized. In 1839 Henry Lane was tried for murder, found guilty, and his execution, October 14th, was the first in the county. The old courthouse was replaced in 1897 by the present hand- some edifice of Carthage stone, erected at a cost of $49,700, and furnished at a cost of $10,000. The indebtedness of the county is $60,000 for building the courthouse, and $30,000 on railroad bond account. The first church building was of logs, erected by the Baptists, in 1837, on the James Dunnica farm, ten miles west of Jefferson City. Rev. John
B. Longdon was the first minister, and James Fulkerson and Martin Noland deacons. The same year a Catholic Church was formed by Father Helias. Rev. James McCorkle was the first Cumberland Presbyterian minister, and the elders were James Mead and Sam- uel Crow. The Methodists organized a church in 1838. The first school was opened by Lashley L. Woods, in the courthouse at Marion, March 10, 1827. In addition to the children of James Miller, Jason Harrison and others, he had for pupils about twenty grown men and women. Another pioneer teacher was Jefferson Thomas, who died in 1832, and was the first person buried in the Jefferson City Cemetery. Jefferson School District was instituted in 1835, with Daniel Colgan, John Walker and Samuel L. Hart as trustees. In 1898 there were in the county 55 public schools, 76 teachers, and 6,241 pu- pils ; the permanent school fund was $16,- 636.56. Railroads entering the county are the main line and the Lebanon branch of the Missouri Pacific. In 1898 the principal sur- plus products were as follows : Wheat, 158,- 883 bushels; flour, 7,746,180 pounds ; corn- meal, 87,000 pounds; shipstuff, 1,428,600 pounds ; clover seed, 97,993 pounds; hay, 98,500 pounds ; wool, 7,850 pounds ; neat cat- tle, 2,458 head ; hogs, 20,950 head ; logs, 36,000 feet ; cross ties, 76,953 feet ; lumber 246,900 feet. In 1900 the population was 20,578.
Coleman, Henry B., physician, was born July 27, 1853, at Columbus, Missouri. His parents were Thomas and Leah Cather- ine (Tackett) Coleman. The father, born in Henrico County, Virginia, son of a practicing physician, was educated at Yale College, studied medicine in Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, and removed to Columbus, Mis- souri, in 1846, where he practiced medicine until 1854, when he came to his death by drowning near his home. The mother, born in Monroe County, Virginia (now West Vir- ginia), was educated at Abingdon, in that State, and came to Missouri with her parents in 1844, the family making their home in Cass County. Her grandfather came to America from France at the same time with Lafayette, to aid in the cause of independ- ence. Her grandmother, Mary Anderson, was a relative of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, one of the signers of the Declaration of In- dependence. She died in 1861. The son,
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Henry B., orphaned at the age of eight years, was cared for by an uncle until he was twelve years of age, when he went South with his older brothers to make his home with an aunt at Tulip, Arkansas. After two years' residence there his uncle and aunt, John M. Rice and wife, removed to Missouri, making their home near Columbus, and he accom- panied them, remaining with them until he began to work for himself. His only edu- cation was such as he received in the ordi- nary ungraded schools where he made his home during his boyhood days. In 1875 he entered the Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, from which he was graduated in 1878, and in 1893 he took a postgraduate course in Chicago. In 1878 he began the practice of medicine at Columbus, and was occupied in a large and remunerative field for many years. In 1893 he removed to Kansas City, Missouri, where he is now engaged in a prac- tice which has been for many years widely useful, and in which he has risen to promi- nence. In 1888 he was elected to the Mis- souri House of Representatives from the Western District of Johnson County, and served one term, commanding the unquali- fied respect of the members of that body for his careful and diligent attention to the duties devolved upon him. In politics he is a Democrat, earnest in support of the prin- ciples of his party, without undue self- assertion. While a boy at Tulip, Arkansas, he became a member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, South, and has since main- tained his connection with that denomina- tion, being now a member of the Olive Street Church, in Kansas City. In 1882 he became a member of Mitchell Lodge, A. F. and A. M., at Columbus, Missouri, over which he presided at one time as worshipful mas- ter; he now holds membership with Temple Lodge, No. 299, of Kansas City.
College Mound .- An incorporated vil- lage, twelve miles southwest of Macon, in Macon County. It was laid out October 10, 1854, McGee College, a private institute, con- ducted under the auspices of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, having been started there the year before. The school was discon- tinued some years ago. The town is seven miles from Excello, a station on the Wabash Railroad. It has two general and two drug stores. Population, 1899 (estimated), 300.
College of Physicians and Sur- geons, St. Louis. - This institution was organized in 1869, by Professor Louis Bauer, then but recently from Brooklyn, New York. The faculty was composed of the following physicians : Louis Bauer, M. D., M. O. C. S .; Montrose A. Pallen, Augustus F. Barnes, T. F. Prewitt, J. K. Bauduy, John Green, G. Baumgarten, I. G. W. Steedman, W. B. Out- ten, A. J. Steele, F. H. McArdle, J. M. Leete, J. M. Scott, Charles E. Briggs, William L. Barret, James F. Johnson, William T. Mason, A. G. Jackes.
The second year Dr. Barret withdrew from the faculty, and Dr. Le Grand Atwood was added thereto. In the course of the second year dissensions sprang up between members of the faculty, and the school was aban- coned at the close of the year. The building in which the two years' lectures were deliv- ered stands on Locust Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Streets.
As the name of this college indicates, one of its principal features was the introduction of a "Practitioner's Course," which, at this time, had begun to attract considerable at- tention in medical circles, and this college is credited with having been the first to inau- gurate a special course of lectures for physi- cians and advanced students of medicine.
Collegiate Alumnae Association, St. Louis Branch of .- In 1893 there met in St. Louis all graduates from the State of the colleges then admitted to the Collegiate Alumnae Association, for the pur- pose of forming a State branch, which might work to better advantage under local condi- tions than as individual members of the national organization. There was such a large number that it was deemed wise to form two State branches-from the mid- dle of the State westward in Kansas City, and from the middle eastward in St. Louis. The first president of the St. Louis branch was Mrs. William Trelease, with Miss Ade- laide Denis as secretary, who served until May, 1897, when their places were filled by Mrs. Philip N. Moore as president, and Mrs. George C. Vich as secretary. The meetings are held three times a year at the homes of the members. The membership is small, when considered as a union of forces from half the State, but it is an organization that grows steadily, and must increase in power
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with its growth. The national organization is working toward higher courses of study and better equipment in the colleges ; toward scholarships at home and fellowships abroad, and toward establishing an American Table in the Archaeological School at Athens. Each member of a branch becomes a member of the Collegiate Alumnae Association, and half of her fees go to the work of that body. Local conditions are very much benefited by local aims, and the St. Louis branch has taken direct interest in the public schools of the city. Its first aim was toward better work in English, in preparation for college, and toward that end the best work of different colleges was brought to the student's notice, and a prize was offered to the girl preparing for college who had the best record in Eng- lish. Three such prizes were given, with excellent result. During the last year the work has been directed toward proper sani- tation of the schools-not necessarily of the old buildings, which were known to be much out of order, but of the new buildings, where the advice of women who were interested might help toward that perfection of result which all wish to attain. The report of such work will be given to the building superin- tendent, at his own request, as quietly and unobtrusively as possible. Meantime any- thing that seems a part of direct educational advancement is of interest to the association, whose aim is always toward the highest and the best.
MARTHA S. KAYSER.
Collier, George, in his day one of the wealthiest citizens of St. Louis, was born March 17, 1796, near Snowhill, Worcester County, Maryland, and died in St. Louis, July 18, 1852. He was the son of Peter and Catherine Collier, and was reared in Mary- land. He came west in 1818 and engaged in business with his elder brother in St. Louis, under the firm name of John Collier & Co. His brother died, unmarried, at an early age, and from him and his mother George Collier inherited a considerable for- tune. He afterward became identified with various manufacturing and other interests in St. Louis, among them being the Collier White Lead Company, which is still in ex- istence, and is widely known throughout the country. He acquired a large fortune and died a millionaire, when millionaires were comparatively few in number in the West.
He was twice married, first to Frances E. Morrison, daughter of James Morrison, of St. Charles, Missouri, and after her death to Sarah A. Bell, daughter of William Bell, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. At his death Mr. Collier left five sons and two daughters.
Collier, Luther, lawyer, was born June 19, 1842, in Howard County, Missouri, son of William and Susan (Higbee) Collier. His father was prominent both as a man of af- fairs and a public official. He served as jus- tice of the peace in Grundy County, was a judge of the county court for two or three terms in tlie fifties, and was postmaster at Trenton eight years, beginning with the first administration of President Lincoln. He died at Trenton, October 10, 1870, and is remem- bered as a worthy pioneer and a useful and honored citizen. The son, Luther Collier, was carefully educated in the schools of Tren- ton, graduating from the high school of that city when Professor Joseph Ficklin, later of the University of the State of Missouri, had charge of the Trenton schools. In 1860, the year after his graduation from the high school, he became assistant instructor in that institution, and was teaching when the Civil War began. His patriotic impulses carried him into the militia service, beginning with a six months' term in the Enrolled Missouri Militia. He was mustered out of the mili- tia organization in March of 1862, and three months later enlisted in the Twenty-third Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment. With this regiment he served until the close of the war, being mustered out at Washing- ton, D. C., in 1865. He was with General Sherman on his famous march to the sea and in the siege at Atlanta, and saw much hard fighting. Gallantry and soldierly con- duct won for him promotion from a private in the ranks to the captaincy of Company A of his regiment, and he was later made adju- tant of the regiment. After the war he re- turned to Trenton and first embarked in business as a partner in a marble shop. He was thus occupied for a year, and then farmed for another year. At the end of that time he turned his attention to the study of law, and read under the preceptorship of Colonel J. H. Shanklin, while serving as road and bridge commissioner of Grundy County. He was admitted to the bar in February of 1870, and began the practice at Trenton in the
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summer of 1871. A careful and judicious
a large office practice, with which he has coupled the abstracting of land titles and in- surance. Candid and conscientious in all his dealings with clients, he has gained and re- tained the confidence of the public, and is much beloved by the people among whom he has lived from early boyhood up to the present time. Immediately after the Civil War he was appointed by the county court of Grundy County a justice of the peace, and throughout the reconstruction period had some difficult duties to perform in that connection. Other official positions which he has filled have been those of docket clerk in the General Assembly of Missouri, dur- ing the years 1870-1-2; mayor of Trenton, in 1882; city attorney of Trenton for several terms, and member of the school board of that city. The last named position he has filled for twenty-five years, and he is now pres- ident of the board. In politics he is a Repub- lican, and he has been a member of the Christian Church since he was fifteen years of age. Since 1879 he has been an elder in that church. He was first post commander of Colonel Jacob Smith Post, No. 72, of the Grand Army of the Republic, and gave to that post its name. Other organizations of which he is a member are the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Woodmen of the World. Captain Collier was first mar- ried, March 27, 1862, to Miss Martha B. Car- ter, of Trenton, who died June 16, 1878, leaving five children. October 29, 1879, he married Miss Fannie C. Brawner, who died April 30, 1893, leaving four children. Febru- ary 28, 1895, he married Alexa W. Marshall, and two children have been born of this union.
Collier, William, pioneer, was born June 2, 1828, in Fayette, Howard County, Missouri, and died at Trenton, Missouri, Sep- tember 8, 1900. His parents were William and Susan Collier, both of whom were na- tives of Kentucky. His mother's maiden name was Higbee. Prior to his marriage the elder William Collier saw service in the War of 1812 as a Kentucky volunteer. He was married in 1817, and lived in Kentucky until he came with his family to Missouri. The younger William Collier attended the
common schools at Fayette in his early boy- counselor and adviser, he has since built up ' hood, and later attended the schools at Tren- ton, Missouri. His father was a brickmaker and mason by occupation, and the son learned these trades. The elder Collier was the contractor for the building of the court- house in Grundy County, and began this work in the year 1843, completing it in 1844. He removed with his family to Tren- ton before beginning work on the court- house, becoming a resident of that place in the year 1842. William Collier, Jr., who was then fifteen years of age, assisted his father in the building of the courthouse, which is still standing and in use. He worked at the building trade, in all, about fifteen years, and from 1853 to 1860 was thus engaged at Tren -. ton. He was also engaged for a number of years in farming operations. During the Civil War he served in the Enrolled Mis- souri Militia, and was numbered among the loyal Unionists of northwestern Missouri who were ready at all times to do all in their power to suppress the secession movement. After the war he engaged for a time in the mercantile business, and was also a trader in real estate. He was an active, capable and honorable man of affairs, and through- out a residence of more than half a century in Grundy County he enjoyed the unqualified esteem of all with whom he was brought into- contact in business and social relations. In early life his political affiliations were with the Whig party. In 1860 he voted for Bell and Everett, who were the candidates of the Constitutional-Union party for President and Vice President, respectively. His devotion to the perpetuation of the Union carried him into the Republican party, and he continued to be a warm supporter of its principles and policies as long as he lived. In 1853 he united with the Christian Church, and he was a consistent member of that great religious denomination until his death. In his younger days he was very active in church work, and was noted for his kindly deeds and his help- fulness to those less fortunate in life than himself. His was a gentle and kindly nature, and he derived the most genuine pleasure- from charitable and benevolent acts. In 1852 he was initiated into Grand River Lodge, No. 52, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Trenton, and remained an honored member of that organization up to the time of his death. He filled many important offices in
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his lodge, having been elected secretary June 30, 1853, and noble grand March 27, 1856. He also served as treasurer of his lodge in 1850 and 1870. Mr. Collier was twice married, first in 1854, to Miss Sarah A. Templeman, who only lived eleven months after their marriage. His second marriage occurred September 14, 1871, when he was united to Mrs. Samantha M. Telley, whose maiden name was Leedy. Mrs. Collier sur- vives her husband. No children were born of his first marriage. Of his second mar- riage six children were born, two of whom died in infancy. Those living in 1900 were Mrs. Lillie Burrill, Mabel Collier, James Col- lier and Susa Katheryn Collier.
Collins .- A village in St. Clair County, on the Kansas City, Clinton & Southern Railway, twelve miles southeast of Osceola, the county seat. It has a public school, a Baptist Church, and a United Brethren Church, a Republican newspaper, the "Ad- vance," and a flourmill. In 1899 the popu- lation was 650. It was platted when the rail- way was built, and took its name from that of the township in which it is situated, named for Judge William Collins.
Collins, Daniel, was born August 10, 1847, in Melvoge, Ireland. His parents were Michael and Margaret Collins. He received an indifferent education, but his life training from his earliest youth served to give him such mastery of a science which has brought untold wealth to countless thousands that his experiences and judgment are held to be of greater value than the opinions of many who are accounted scientists. His school op- portunities were limited to a few months at irregular intervals before he was twelve years of age, and there ceased. His father was a copper-miner, and from him he derived some knowledge of the properties of that metal, the mode of its production, and a desire to learn more of the subject thus unfolded to him. At the age of eight years he began labor in the tin mines at Cambron, near Land's End, Cornwall, England, famous for their antiquity and as the most productive field in that metal found in the world. His first work was to operate a blow-fan to sup- ply air to the, miners. He was there em- ployed for one year, and when sixteen years of age was a miner, drawing a miner's
wages. When he reached the age of seven- teen years he came to America and found employment in the zinc mines at Ogdens- burg, Sussex County, New Jersey. From there he went to West Cheshire, Connecticut, where he opened a barytes mine for A. L. Hunt, the presence of that mineral having been discovered by himself. He subsequently took charge of the Red Ash Coal Mines, at Mackinac City, in Pennsylvania, owned by Michael Barry, and was so engaged for three years. He then mined zinc for a time at Freedensville, Pennsylvania, in old diggings. Removing to Illinois, he dug coal for three years at Gardner, Grundy County. In March, 1871, he came to Missouri, and mined lead at Granby for a few days, when he went to the site of Joplin, then wild prairie. He there engaged in mining, but unsuccessfully. The practice was to seek mineral upon the hills, instead of on the low grounds, and the toil was arduous. Repeatedly he and his col- leagues suffered disappointment, taking up their windlasses and carrying them and their tools to another location miles away. After spending four months in these profitless un- dertakings, he went to Oronogo, to assist in sinking a pump shaft for the Granby Com- pany. He then moved back to Joplin, and instituted a. stage line to Carthage and a freighting line to Baxter Springs, a distance of fifteen miles, transporting to that place part of the pig lead produced from the Jop- lin mines. He continued this a number of years, until the completion of what is now known as the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railway, which supplanted his freighting business, and he resumed mining, continuing a livery stable business. He re- tired from these pursuits some years ago, and now gives his attention to his large min- ing properties, which are of great value, comprising many thousand acres held indi- vidually or in association with others. His services to the mining interests of Joplin and the adjacent territory can not be estimated, nor are those interests to be mentioned un- connected with his name. He was one of the first twelve men who came to the neigh- borhood after the war, and the first to sink a new shaft or resume work in an old one, by proper processes, he being the only practi- cal miner then on the ground. He traced the ore croppings from Joplin Hollow to East Hollow, a distance of five miles, and was the
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discoverer of the celebrated John Jackson Mine, in the Chitwood Hollow, giving it the name of an old friend in St. Louis. He was the first in that section to identify "black jack" as zinc blende, and he sent a package to East St. Louis, where the result of the assay confirmed his assertion. At this time there was no market for zinc, and it was not until about a year afterward that the first car load was shipped by Murphy and Porter. He was an intimate friend of Mr. Murphy, and the two advised together con- stantly, but were never associates in busi- ness. Mr. Collins has always been an intensely active Democrat, devoting his effort and means unstintingly to the service of the party, but without the least selfishness of purpose, having been neither a seeker after nor holder of office. He was reared a Catho- lic. Toward all sects of Christians he has constantly manifested the utmost liberality, and he has contributed toward the building of every church edifice in the city. His aid has been rendered with equal willingness and generosity to every public purpose, and wherever suffering or distress made its ap- peal. He enjoys the fame of being the best informed mineralogist in the district, and his counsel is constantly sought by investors, among whom are the largest in the East, in- dividual and corporate, who refer to him as being a masterly practical expert in zinc, copper, lead and silicate. His highest fame, however, rests upon his discovery of zinc in the Joplin fields, the vast product of which has made this region the wonder of the world.
Collins, George R., prominently iden- tified with the business interests of Kansas City ever since his removal to Missouri, was born in Troy, New York. His parents were Samuel and Mary A. (Banker) Collins. On the paternal side he is descended from six of the original Puritans who settled in New England during the years preceding 1630, and the genealogical records of both his pa- ternal and maternal ancestors are traced back to the very foundations of England and Holland as nations. The paternal ancestor who came to America was Lieutenant Ben- jamin Collins, who located at Salisbury, Massachusetts, in 1628, and from whom the subject of this sketch is a descendant in the ninth generation. The other five original
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