Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Colling, David 1855 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

DAVID COLLING, one of the leading farmers of Columbia Township, Tuscola County,
was born in Nelson Township, county of Halton, Ontario, February 28, 1855. He is
a son of Joseph and Mary (Ross) Colling, and his grandfather, Joseph Colling,
Sr., who was born in County Durham, England, came to Canada in 1821, where he
undertook farming and reared a family of four sons and five daughters. He died
in that province and left behind him the memory of a good and true man, an
earnest Christian and a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church.

  The father of our subject was born in England and came to Canada with his
parents and he there owns two hundred and twenty-five acres of fine arable land
which he has improved. He is a member of the Wesleyan Church and a man of
character and ability. His ten children are: James, Joseph, Mary E., Barbara A.,
John, David, William, George, Henry and Emerson. The two latter and the daughter
Barbara reside in Canada but the remainder of the family are in Tuscola County.
The mother of this houshold was born in Ireland, but came to Canada at the age
of twenty-two.

  David Colling received an ordinary district-school education and thorough
training upon the farm and at the age of twenty-one left home, and coming to
Tuscola County in October, 1876, he located on one hundred and sixty acres on
section 21, Columbia Township. Here he has cleared one hundred and twenty acres,
put upon it good buildings and placed it under thorough cultivation. His father
had entered five hundred and twenty acres of land which he has since given his
sons, and four hundred acres in Watertown, and later bought two hundred and
forty acres.

  Our subject was, in the spring of 1891, elected Justice of the Peace on the
ticket of the Industrial party, although he was formerly a Republican. His
marriage, which took place January 1, 1876, united him with Matilda L. Young,
who was born in the township of Seneca, Haldimand County, Ontario, and is a
daughter of William and Fannie (Bundy) Young, both Canadians who had carried on
farming in that province. Three children have come to this pleasant home,
namely: Charles J., George W. and Florence. Mrs. Colling is an active and useful
member of the Presbyterian Church and an honored member of society.


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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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