WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON

Hillsboro, Oregon October 1917 Hillsboro Argus,
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CAPT. A.M. COLLINS ANSWERS LAST CALL VETERAN OF INDIAN AND CIVIL WAR 
PASSED AWAY MONDAY EVENING. HAS LIVED AN EVENTFUL LIFE.

MAKE(sp) Scaffold for Execution of 300 Sioux, and Hanged 38

Capt. A.M. Collins, of Second St. , this city, passed away at his home Monday 
evening, Oct. 1, after an extended illness, aged 85 years. He returned from 
Roseburg a few weeks ago and remarked that he would spend the balance of his 
life in his old home, where he had lived since 1876. He was born in Crawford 
Co. Pa. in 1832 and when a young man moved to Wisconsin. He went to California 
in the seventies and moved here later, taking up the vocation of mill wright. 
He was married to Lydia jane Crandall, a sister of Judge Crandall, and the 
wife died several years ago. three children mourn his loss: Mrs. Eva Williams, 
Hillsboro; Mrs Frances Rasmusen, Moro, Ore. and Mrs. Flora Magruder, of Yakima,
Wn. All the children were present at the last.
As a young man, Mr. Collins was a member of the Minnesota State Militia, 
with the rank of Captain, He was engaged against the Sioux when the Civil War 
broke, and was unable to respond to the call for volunteers because the State 
of Minnesota had its hands full. He was with the soldiers who caught the Sioux 
after the New Ulm Massacre, and built the scaffold on which 300 Indians were 
condemned to be hanged. President Lincoln held up the execution , and between 
postponement and the day of hanging, reprieved all but 39 of them. One died 
before the date of execution, and 38 were executed on Dec. 26, 1862. He 
remained with the Minnesota soldierykeeping the Indians in check until 
1864 , when he became a Lieutenant in the First regiment Minnesota heavy 
artillery. He was discharged at the end of the Civil War.