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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    MRS. CATHERINE COLLINS, a widow, then resident of San Francisco, selected
from a map on file in a real estate agency in her city two lots located on the
northeast corner of Sixth Street and Utah Avenue in the new townsite of Santa
Monica. She was an invalid, almost helpless with rheumatism, and hoping to
benefit by a change of climate, she immediately embarked by steamer for her new,
but as yet unseen, home. She brought with her three of her four children, two
daughters and a son. The older son, James D. Collins, had preceded her and had
erected a dwelling. She landed at the Santa Monica wharf in December, 1875. She
steadily improved in health, and in 1878 bought two lots at the northeast corner
of Utah Avenue and Second Street, and soon thereafter moved the residence to
this new purchase, converted it into a rooming house and did a profitable
business by taking the "overflow" patronage from the Santa Monica Hotel. She
became well known throughout Santa Monica and by the tourists who became her
guests, as a good woman of sterling traits of character, earnest endeavor and
business ability. She conducted the Collins House for many years, until her
death in 1894. She was a native of Ireland, born in County Caven, came to
America with her father, Andrew Clark, who located at Dubuque, Iowa. There she
grew up and married Daniel Collins, a native of Oswego, N. Y., son of Irish
parents. They came to Sacramento, California, about 1862. He, preceding the
family, engaged in the teaming and transfer business. The family soon followed
him, coming via the Isthmus of Panama. They there had three children, one little
daughter, Rosanna, died of black measles on the journey, which consumed four
months and entailed many hardships.

    Mrs. Collins raised six children—William Collins, the oldest, now lives at
Fort Pierre, S. D. James D., well known in Santa Monica, died here in 1906, at
fifty years of age, leaving a widow and three children in Arizona. Mary E. is
the wife of T. J. Connelly, one of Santa Monica's respected and successful
business men. Agnes is the wife of C. H. Cumstock, a successful merchant of
Tien-tsin, China. By a second marriage to E. J. Corbett, Mrs. Collins had two
daughters, twins, Lucy and Elizabeth Corbett Collins


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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