Bureau County IL Archives Biographies.....Collins, O. T.
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Virginia Perry vperry@midwest.net January 1999

Biography of O T COLLINS, Bureau County, Illinois

O. T. Collins, Westfield, was born January 3, 1823, in Hartford, Conn. 
His great-grandfather came from Scotland. The latter’s son, Simeon, was 
born in Connecticut, where he was a farmer and died. He was the father of 
six children: Silas, Jonathan, Isaac, Alvin, Simeon and Mrs. Prudence 
Deer. Of these Isaac Collins was a blacksmith. He married Sophia Treat. 
They were natives of Connecticut, where they died. They were the parents 
of five children: Sophia, Orin T., Emily, Lovinia and Lydia A. Of these 
only Orin T. survives. He was reared and educated in his native State, 
where he was married, November 24, 1846, to Charlotte O. Pitkin, born 
August 4, 1821, in Hartford, Conn., daughter of George Pitkin, who came 
here in 1855, and died here. She was the mother of five children: George 
P., Mrs, Charlotte E. Ross (of Kansas), Sophia T., Charles P. and Laura C. 
Collins. Mrs. Charlotte O. Collins died May 7, 1878. Mr. Collins came to 
Bureau County in November 1855. He lived two years in Lamoille Township, 
and then bought 160 acres in Westfield Township, on Section 25 and 26, 
where he now resides. Politically, he has been so far identified with 
the Republican party.

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