Clarence M. Collins Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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Surname: COLLLINS
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 786

     CLARENCE M. COLLINS, a prosperous citizen of Exeter, N. H.,
who has been proprietor of a drug store here since October, 1900, was
born in Brentwood, N. H., in 1859, a son of Nathaniel B. and Myria
E. (Thyng) Collins. His parents were both natives of that town. They
removed to Exeter, where Nathaniel B. Collins conducted a grocery
store for a number of years. He was a Republican in politics and for
some time served the town as tax collector. He was a veteran of the
Civil war, and a man widely respected, being a reliable, straightforward
business man and one who conscientiously fulfilled his duties as a
good citizen. His death took place in 1898. He and his wife were the
parents of five children, namely: Everett; Clarence M., subject of this
sketch; Anna, who is the wife of Herbert F. Dunn, a groceryman of
Exeter; Charles H., and Harold N. The mother resides with her daugh-
ter Anna.
     Clarence M. Collins was educated in the public schools, graduating
from the high school in the class of 1876. He then entered the drug
store of C. A. Merrill, with whom he remained for about three years,
learning the business. He was afterwards engaged in the wholesale
drug business at Boston for four years. For ten years he was a member
of the Harvard Glee Club. After returning to Exeter he went into the
drug business for himself, passing the state board examination as
pharmacist. He is conducting a successful business and is widely known
and respected as a progressive and up to date citizen. In politics he is
a Republican. A Free Mason, he has advanced in the order as far as
the Commandery, belonging also to the Uniformed Rank, Knights of
Pythias, the American Order of Foresters, the Royal Arcanum and the
New England Order of Protection.
     Mr. Collins was married in 1889 to Miss Arabella Osborne, who was
born in Dover, N. H., a daughter of Charles and Lucy (Quimby) Os-
borne, who were prosperous farming people of that locality. Mr. and
Mrs. Collins are the parents of a daughter, Eleanor Osborne, who is
the wife of John W. Durgin, and the mother of two daughters--Margaret
and Janet. Mr. Durgin is a civil engineer in the employ of the Boston
& Maine Railroad Company. Mr. and Mrs. Collins attend the Con-
gregational church. Mr. Collins, who is a man of musical taste and
ability, has had charge of the church choir for a number of years, and
is also leader of musical societies in Exeter. He and his family are
popular members of Exeter society.