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Richard Collins June 3 1797 - June 10 1850
Mason County KyArchives Biography

Author: The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky, 
J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878, Cincinnati, Ohio

Hon. Richard Collins, Lawyer and Merchant, was born June 3, 1797, in New 
Jersey, and was the son of Rev. John Collins, a minister of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. He studied law and practiced that profession from 1818 to 
1832, in Hillsboro, Ohio; he served in both branches of the Ohio Legislature; 
ran for Congress, in 1826, but was defeated; removed to Maysville, Kentucky in 
1832, and for the next twenty years engaged successfully in mercantile 
pursuits; was elected to the Kentucky Legislature, in 1834, 1844, and 1847; 
was, for many years President of the Maysville City Council; from 1850 to 
1853, was President of the Maysville and Lexington Railroad; and, in the 
latter year, removed to Clermont County, Ohio, where he died May 12, 1855. He 
was a fine write, a brilliant and attractive speaker, a man of fine executive 
ability, and endowed with admirable social qualities, and could have filled 
with honor almost any position in life. Mr. Collins was married to Mary Ann 
Armstrong, eldest daughter of John Armstrong, long one of the most influential
business men of Maysville, Kentucky. One of his sons, John Armstrong
Collins, was born at Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1824; raised at Maysville,
Kentucky; graduated at Miami University; practiced law in Cincinnati; in
1849, located at Lake Providence, Louisiana; and died, at New Orleans, June
10, 1850.



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