Edwin Collin

COLLIN, HUNTER, GILRUTH, WHITE

Posted By: Gordon Felland <gfelland@comcast.net>
Date: 11/17/2004 at 10:26:27

Edwin Collin, attorney at law, has resided in Northwood, Worth Co., Iowa, since 1869. He was born in Hillsdale, Columbia Co., N. Y., Aug. 31, 1842. He was the son of Henry A. and Sarah A. (White) Collin. The parents were married in Hillsdale. They had three children – Alonzo, professor in Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa; Addie, wife of James H. Gilruth, and Edwin. In 1856 Mr. Collin moved his family to Lynn Co., Iowa where he at present resides. Henry A. Collin is a staunch democrat. He has been justice of the peace and notary public for many years. He is a trustee of Cornell College, and has always taken an active interest in that institution. Edwin was educated at Cornell College, graduating in the class of 1864. Soon after leaving college he was employed with a party of civil engineers in the survey and construction of the Chicago, Iowa & Nebraska Railroad (now the Chicago & Northwestern), through Story and Boone counties, Iowa. In 1865 he visited Europe for his health, going to Genoa Italy, where he was employed a clerk in the United States consulate, remaining there eight months. He then visited Switzerland, when he received the appointment of consular agent at St. Gall, and afterward vice-consul. Here he remained over two years, then he returned to the United States and entered the law department of the Iowa State University, graduating there in 1869. The same year he came to Northwood, where he soon after made abstracts of the county records and engaged in the practice of law. In 1874 he was married to Mary E. Hunter, a daughter of William Hunter. Mr. and Mrs. Collin have two children – Henry A. and Nellie M.

Source. History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1884, page 592.

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