Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Collins, Michael S. March 16, 1841 - 
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MICHAEL S. COLLINS, dealer in choice wines, liquors and cigars, at Big Rapids, 
was born in Hastings 

County, Pr. of Ont., March 16, 1841.  He is a son of Richard and Bridget 
Collins, and at the age of 14 

began life for himself as a lumberman, and spent five or six years in that 
employment.  He then came to 

Grand Rapids, Mich., and was engaged until the autumn of 1865, in cutting ties 
for the G. R. & I. R. R., 

and in lumbering.  He came to Big Rapids in the fall of the year named, where 
he carried on the lumbering 

business until 1876, and in that year rented the Montreal House, which he 
managed three years.  He then 

purchased the building he now occupies, and the lot where it stands, from J. 
H. Foster.  It is a brick 

structure, and the third of its class in the town.  He carries a stock valued 
at $3,000, and is 

transacting a thriving business.  He owns a vacant lot on State Street, a 
house and two lots on the corner 

of Bridge and Grant Streets, and 10 acres of land in the Third Ward.  Mr. 
Collins is a member of the 

Mutual Benefit Association (Catholic Order).  

He was married at Grand Rapids, July 8, 1868, to Mary, daughter of James and 
Eliza Rice, a native of 

Canada.

Additional Comments:
1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co.

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