COLLINS BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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COLLINS, Charles T. - b: 1833 Fayette, Howard Co, MO
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 353
residence: 

Charles T. Collins was born in Fayette, Howard County, Missouri, February 22, 
1833, and reared there until seventeen years of age. During three and a half years 
of this time he was a student in Central College, Fayette. He then removed to 
Clinton and commenced clerking in a mercantile house and pursued this avocation 
until the outbreak of the war, when he enlisted in a company of Missouri State 
Guards commanded by Captain Owens, but on account of disability he served only 
a short period. In the autumn of 1862, he went to Macon City, Missouri, residing 
there until July, 1864; then to Clay County, Illinois, where he lived one year and 
then returned to Clinton and resumed his former business of salesman with 
different firms until 1872, when he entered the law office of Fyke & Ladue. After 
applying himself assiduously for three years he entered into partnership with Mr. 
Fyke. He is a safe, reliable and successful attorney, and the firm of Fyke & 
Collins has a reputation not bounded by county limits. Mr. Collins was married 
January 6, 1868, to Miss Emma Moore, who died July 23, 1870. He was again 
married May 24, 1876, to Mrs. Mollie Bradley, whose maiden name was Skinner. 
They have two children: Edna E. and Birdie S. 

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COLLINS, Richard Filmore - b: 1857 Choctaw Co, AL
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 561
residence: Windsor

Richard Filmore Collins was born in Choctaw County, Alabama, June 25, 1857, 
and is the third son of a family of eight children. He was brought up to study and 
work on a farm and in a tannery, his father, Dellard Collins, who had a boot and 
shoe store, also carrying on a large tannery. In 1869 the father moved to Missouri 
and settled in Cooper County, where he still resides. In 1879 Richard F. came to 
Windsor with his brother-in-law, W. H. Burton, and together they engaged in the 
livery business. Dick, as he is familiarly called, is an exemplary young man, of 
good habits and attends strictly to his business.

COLLINS, Theodore W. - b: 1843 Boone Co, OH
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 354
residence: 

Theodore W. Collins was born in Boone County, Ohio, December 9, 1843. He 
received an academic education at the Ohio Valley Academy, of Decatur, that 
state. He enlisted in the Federal army during the late war in Company E, Tenth 
Cavalry Regiment, serving over one year. Seven months of this time was spent as 
drill master of Marsh's battalion. After his discharge he, in 1864, re-enlisted in 
the Fourth Ohio Regiment, which was on escort duty, being General Howard's body 
guard in the march to the sea. After returning home he was engaged in teaching in 
his native state until 1867, when he removed to Macon City, Missouri, and taught 
school until 1869, devoting his leisure hours to the study of law in the office of 
Williams, Jones & Brock. He was admitted to the bar in Macon County, and in 1869 
settled in Clinton and commenced the practice of law. He has both talents and 
ability and first-class business qualifications which he is utilizing in carrying 
on a heavy insurance business. His mind runs more to that than law and he makes 
little effort to secure a practice in the profession. He has held the position of 
mayor of Clinton and is active in educational matters. He was married August 2, 
1868, to Miss E. Johnson, of Pennsylvania. They have two children, Carl F. and 
Maud E.

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COLLINS, William Benjamin - b: 1856 Big Creek Twp, Henry Co, MO
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 400
residence: Big Creek Twp

Judge William Benjamin Collins, a member of the County Court from the north 
district of Henry County, is a native son of this county and belongs to one of the 
pioneer families of western Missouri. Judge Collins was born July 18, 1856, in 
Big Creek township, a son of Thomas and Sarah (Wooster) Collins, natives of 
Virginia. Thomas Collins was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, August 20, 
1816, and came to Warren County, Missouri, with his parents in 1825, when he 
was about nine years of age. He was a son of George Collins, who spent the 
remainder of his life in Warren County after coming to this State. Thomas Collins 
went to California in 1849 with an ox team train. He met with more than the 
success of the average gold seeker and when he returned he came by way of the 
Isthmus of Panama and New Orleans, and had several thousand dollars in gold, 
which he exchanged for currency at New Orleans. He came to Henry County in 
1855, settled near where Garland is now located in Big Creek township. Here he 
bought three hundred twenty acres of land, and later added more acreage until at 
one time he owned over eight hundred acres. He died February 10, 1899. His wife 
departed this life September 9, 1872, and their remains are buried in the Norris 
Cemetery. Thomas and Sarah (Wooster) Collins were the parents of the following 
children: William B., the subject of this review, and James T. and John Pressly, 
twins. James T. lives in Bogard township and John Pressly died at the age of 
eight years. When the Collins family settled in Henry County this section of 
Missouri was sparsely settled. Indians were still within the present borders of 
Henry County. When Judge Collins was a baby the squaws who lived in the vicinity 
of the Collins family often wanted to borrow the white papoose, but his mother, 
fearing that they might forget to bring him back, persistently refused to loan him 
for the amusement of the squaws. Judge Collins lives practically on the same 
place where he was born, and still drinks water from the same well from which 
he drank during his boyhood days. He attended school in the rural district school 
in Big Creek township and in Honey Creek township. His first teacher as he 
remembers was a Miss Spangler. He has made general farming and stock raising 
his life's occupation and has met with a reasonable degree of success. He owns a 
valuable farm of two hundred acres in Big Creek township and eighty acres in 
Honey Creek. In addition to general farming he is also extensively engaged in 
stock raising, and is recognized as one of the successful stockmen of Henry 
County. Judge Collins has been a life long Democrat and has always taken an 
interest in political affairs. He was elected county judge for the north district of 
Henry County in 1914 and re-elected in 1916. He has made a capable and 
conscientious public officer and has conducted the affairs of the county in the 
same capable, conscientious manner characteristic of him and his private 
business affairs. Judge Collins was united in marriage February 20, 1876, to Miss 
Mary Blevins, a daughter of R. P. and Missouri Ann (Crockett) Blevins, the former 
a native of Henry County and the latter of Indiana. Further mention of the Blevins 
family history is made elsewhere in this volume. To William B. Collins and wife 
have been born two children: Ella and John Pressley. Ella Collins is now the wife 
of Dr. S. W. Woltzen, a native of Illinois, born May 6, 1870. He was educated in the 
public schools of Minook and Benson, Illinois, and the St. Louis Medical College of 
St. Louis, Missouri. He practiced medicine for twenty-three years in Henry County 
and on June 23, 1917, was commissioned captain in the Medical Reserve Corps of 
the United States Army and served in that capacity until his honorable discharge 
on account of sickness in June, 1918. John P. Collins, the only son born to Judge 
Collins and wife, is now engaged in farming in Big Creek township, Henry County. 
He married Ethel Miller November 14, 1906.

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