A. M. COLLAR - Biography

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This biography appears on page 670 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

A. M. COLLAR, farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. Union Grove; born in Berkshire Co.,
Mass., in 1826, and went with his parents to Madison Co. in 1830; his
father, Jared Collar, came to Racine Co. in 1837; located in Yorkville,
and took up 160 acres Government land in Yorkville and forty acres in
Sec. 27, Dover; he sold the land in Yorkville, moved his family to
Dover, and took up forty acres more Government land in Sec. 27, Dover,
where he lived till his death. He was married in Connecticut, and
brought his family with him to Dover; had eight children- O. H., Erastus
S., Jared A., Daniel M., Aurin M., Merton P., Rhoda L. and Harriet L. He
died in June, 1877, aged 86 years, and is buried in Dover; his wife also
died in Dover, October, 1852, aged 62 years. Aurin M . owns eighty acres
in Sec. 26, with residence and barns; He married in Dover, December,
1849, Elvira Taber, daughter of Gilbert Taber and had one son Oscar W.
Collar, born March 12, 1854, and died March 22, 1874, aged 20 years and
10 days. They live in Sec. 26, in. Dover.