Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Collins, Joshua R 1854 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Joshua R. Collins, farmer, P. O. Morris. The subject of this sketch is a 
native of Grundy County, born November 13, 1854; son of Jeremiah and Maggie 
(Widley) Collins. Raised and received the elements of an English education at 
the common schools of the county; took a course at the Morris Classical 
Institute. Afterward graduated at the Grand Prairie Seminary and Commercial 
College. Married, November 27, 1879, in Grundy County, to Miss Anna Holroyd, 
daughter of Benjamin and Susan Holroyd, of Grundy County, living in Wauponsee 
Township. Mrs. Collins, born in Will County, Ill., April 3, 1855, and educated 
in Will County. They have one son - Frank W. Collins, born in Grundy County 
February 26, 1882. Mr. Collins is among the leading stock-raisers of the 
county, and has a vast farm of valuable land in Felix Township known as the 
Samuel Holderman farm, residence four and a half miles southeast from Morris.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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