Clay County, SD Biographies.....Collar, Benajor W. February 8, 1835 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

HON. BENAJOR W. COLLAR, a prominent citizen and enterprising farmer of Vermillion
township, Clay county, was born in Morris, Otsego Co., N. Y., February 8, 1835. His
father and mother, Lyman and Loes (Utter) Collar, were both natives of Dutchess
county, of the same state; she died in Waupaca county, Wis., in 1856, and he passed
to the other world in Otsego county, N. Y., four years later.

Of the family of six sons and four daughters, our subject was the youngest. He lived
in his native county in the Empire state until sixteen years of age, when he
accompanied his parents to the Badger state, and in and around Waupaca county he
spent the next nine years of his life, being engaged in lumbering in the woods
during the winter and farming in the summer. On attaining mature years he was
married to Miss Charlotte Morey, a native of Orange county, N. Y., born February 29,
1840. Mrs. Collar is the daughter of William and Amelia (Wood) Morey, and the eldest
child of a family of three sons and two daughters born to them. Mr. Morey died in
1852, but his good wife still survives at an advanced age. After their marriage,
which occurred June 7, 1856, Mr. Collar and his young bride settled in Waupaca
county, Wis., and continued to reside there until i860, at which time Mr. Collar
rented a farm in Jones county, Iowa, for one season, and then in April, 1861,
removed with his family to Clay county, Dak. Ter. On arrival he entered a claim in
Vermillion township, and near there he has since lived. He has given his time almost
exclusively to agricultural pursuits, and now owns 720 acres of as fine farming land
as is to be found in the vicinity - all in Vermillion township.

Mr. and Mrs. Collar are the parents of eight children, of whom we note the following
record: Egbert L.; William A.; Ella G., the wife of Thomas Glenn; Willis B.;
Rosetta, now Mrs. T. H. Combs; Violetta, the wife of O. O. Lakken; Lottie, now Mrs.
George Ainsworth; and Flora B., the wife of John E. Hirt. Mr. Collar served one term
in the territorial legislature and formerly took quite an active part in all local
and political affairs, though of late he has devoted his attention more to his
personal matters. Mrs. Collar is a devout Christian, a member in good standing of
the Baptist church, and she has been a devoted wife, a fond mother and a true
helpmate in all that the word implies.


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