Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Collins, Myron 1835 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

MYRON COLLINS. This representative farmer, whose home is on section 4, Genesee
Township, Genesee County, is a native of the Empire State, where he was born in
Sodus Township, Wayne County, March 4, 1835. Hiram Collins, his father, was born
and bred in the Green Mountain State, where he carried on his business of
shoemaking, and where the mother, Laura Blood, was also born and brought up.
Wayne County, N. Y., was the scene of their marriage, and there they lived and
died, the father at the age of forty years, in 1843, and the mother at the age
of eighty-six. Three of their four children grew to manhood.

  The subject of this sketch was the second son in this family and in his native
town he received his education, remaining with his mother until the breaking out
of the late war, when he entered Company E, One Hundred and Eleventh New York
Infantry, in 1862. He was in the battle of Gettysburg and all through that
campaign, being wounded at the battle of Petersburg. His honorable discharge was
received at Syracuse in June, 1865, and he then returned to his native place.

  The marriage of Myron Collins and Annie Leadley took place in Wayne County,
July 2, 1858. Mrs. Collins is a native of England, being born in Yorkshire, but
has spent most of her life in this country. They came to Michigan in 1869, and
rented a small farm Mt. Morris Township, Genesee Counnty, [sic] upon which they
remained for seven years, at the end of which time they purchased a farm in the
same township, and upon it they resided for eight years, selling that property
in 1884, and buying the eighty on the section where they now live. The two sons
of this marriage are Hiram and Elmer, both at home.

  The house into which Mr. Collins moved on coming to his present home was
destroyed by fire in 1890, and he at once proceeded to erect a new abode, a
pleasant and attractive house, which cost him some $1,100. Here he carries on
general farming and keeps his land in a good state of cultivation, having
excellent crops thereon. He is a Republican in his political views and his war
experiences have brought him into the Grand Army of the Republic, belonging to
that organization at Mt. Morris. He is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at that place, in the work of which he takes an active part and is a
liberal contributor to every good cause.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892

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