Levi D. Collins of Seabook, N.H. Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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

Page 1296

     LEVI D. COLLINS,* a well known and highly esteemed citizen of the
town of Seabrook, N. H., was born in this town, May 27, 1881, son of Robert
F. and Emily A. (Fowler) Collins. He was one of seven children, having
one brother Robert W., and five sisters. Of the latter, Hannah married
Frank B. Eaton ( deceased); Lottie M. married Frank Lawrence Chase (de-
ceased), and Clara A. married William Q. Eaton, a brother of Frank B.
Eaton.

Page 1297

     Levi D. Collins was educated in the grammar school and at Putnam High
School, Newburyport, Mass., where he spent one year. He is now serving
his seventh term as a member of the board of selectmen of the town of Sea-
brook. He belongs to the Junior Order of American Mechanics, being a mem-
ber of Passaconaway Council, No. 7, and has held all the offices in the Council.
He has attended several state meetings of the State Council, and is now serv-
ing in his third year as financial secretary. He also belongs to Alfred N. Dow
Camp, No. 42, Division of New Hampshire, Sons of Veterans, held all its
offices, and was its first secretary and treasurer. He has been representative
to the State Division and has been on the Camp Council of the State Division.
He is a member of the Home Mutual Aid Society of Seabrook and is a past
president of the Society. He attended the last senatorial convention held in
the district at Exeter, voting for Hon. John N. Sanborn of Hampton Falls
for senator.
     Mr. Collins married Grace M. Randall of Seabrook, May 31, 1901, a
daughter of Arthur and Betsey Randall. He and his wife have been the
parents of four children, as follows: Madeline R. and Marion L. (twins, of
whom the former is now living and the latter died when six weeks old);
Frank W. and Arthur W., both of whom are living.