Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Colling, James 1842 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JAMES COLLING. Our subject is the owner of three hundred acres of land, located
on sections 10 and 11, Watertown Township, Tuscola County. He is a native of
Canada, having been born April 15, 1842, and is the son of Joseph and Ann
(Masson) Colling. Our subject remained in Canada until 1861, at which date he
came to the Wolverine State and worked on a farm of two hundred acres, which his
father had taken up from the Government in 1852.

  The original of this sketch was married in Canada, May 17, 1869, to Sarah J.
Prudham. Mrs. Colling was the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Foster) Prudham,
the father a native of England and the mother of Ireland. The parents had born
to them a family of five sons and three daughters. The father of Mrs. Colling
was a farmer by occupation. He came to Canada, where his decease took place. The
mother is still living and residing in that country.

  To our subject and wife have been born five children, bearing the names
respectively of Ellen K., Albert E., Annie E., Sarah J., and James W., and all
of whom are living. Ellen is a graduate of the Mayville school and is at present
teaching. Mr. Colling has been a resident of Watertown Township since 1861. He
has become the possessor of three hundred acres of land, two hundred and twenty
acres of which are under most excellent improvement. He has erected good and
convenient buildings and has all the farm implements necessary to carry on the
work of a first-class farm, and his property is one of the finest in the township.

  Socially our subject is identified with the Masons, having taken the first
degree. He has always been numbered among the Republicans in politics, believing
that party best able to carry out his principles in a governmental way. He has
held the office of Supervisor for five successive years, which shows him to be a
popular man in his district; he also has been Township Treasurer two terms and
Highway Commissioner for a number of years. He has been successful in all his
undertakings and has accumulated his property solely by his own industry.


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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