Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Samuel Collins

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Samuel Collins, retail liquor dealer, of Van Buren, was born in Botetourt 
County, Va., in 1829, and is a son of John and Mary (Peery) Collins. The father 
was born in Lynchburgh, Va., in 1810, where he passed his entire life engaged in 
agricultural pursuits, and was killed in 1873, by the falling of a tree. The 
mother survived her husband but one year; she was a native of Virginia. Samuel 
Collins is the oldest of a family of eight children, and at the age of eighteen 
began to work at blacksmithing, at which he continued many years. In 1848 he 
moved to Searcy, White Co., Ark., and in 1851 went to Lewisburg, Conway Co., 
Ark. In 1860 he married Miss Lizzie L. Green, who was born in New Albany, Ind., 
in 1845, and is the mother of eight children: Pomp Lafayette, Mary M. (wife of 
Henry Whitaker, engineer on Fort Smith & Little Rock Railway), Willie Lee (wife 
of Louis Vogle, groceryman at Little Rock), Samuel C., Frederick D., Ernest C., 
Precious J. and Bennie E. During the late war Mr. Collins spent three years in 
New Albany, Ind. In 1876 Mrs. Collins started a boarding-house in Lewisburg, and 
in 1877 moved to Atkins, Ark., and established the Atkins Hotel. In 1882 they 
moved to Van Buren, where Mrs. Collins keeps a first-class hotel, known as the 
"Collins Hotel," and enjoys a liberal patronage. In January, 1887, Mr. Collins 
started the retail liquor business, in which he is now engaged. In politics Mr. 
Collins is a stanch Democrat, and he is a member of the K. of H.