Hale County AlArchives Biographies.....Collins, Joseph Todd March 24 1836 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    JOSEPH TODD COLLINS, a prominent merchant and planter of Hale county, was
born in Stafford county, V a., March 24, 1836. He is a son of Joseph T. and
Susan (Wood) Collins. When he was about two years old they removed to Caroline
county, Va., and here he grew to manhood and received a fairly good education.
When he was sixteen years of age he began clerking in a store in Virginia. He
continued clerking until about 1856, and then went into business at Cedar Fork,
Caroline county, Va., the firm being J. T. Collins & Co., and continuing until
the breaking out of the war, and in April, 1861, he became a soldier in company
B, Ninth Virginia cavalry, in which regiment he remained a private soldier
through the Civil war. In December, 1867, he joined his brother, Charles W.
Collins, at Gallion, Ala., and at once formed a co-partnership with him, under
the firm name of C. W. Collins & Bro., which has since continued to do a
successful business at Prairieville, and beside their mercantile business they
carry on planting to a considerable extent. In November, 1866, Mr. Collins was
married to Mrs. Kate Humphries, nee Davis, by whom he has four sons and six
daughters. In February, 1892, Mrs. Collins died. Mr. Collins and family are
members of the Baptist church. While he is a democrat, yet he has never sought
political honors.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1057
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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