Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Collins, Lutelus Lindley April 7, 1838 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 423
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Lutelus Lindley Collins, a progressive farmer of Dunbar 
township, is a son of William Collins and Eliza Cox Collins, 
and was born near East Liberty, in Dunbar township, Fayette 
county, Penna, April 7, 1838.
    His great grandfather, William Collins, was born in 
England in 1762 and came to Kent county, Maryland, where he 
married a Miss Gail and had four sons: William Collins, John 
Collins, George Collins and James Collins, from whom are 
descended the large Collins posterity of today.
    James Collins, the grandfather, married Sarah Dudley; 
removed from Maryland to Fayette county, Penna, in 1822 and 
settled in Dunbar township on a farm known as Fort Hill.
    William Collins, father of L L Collins, was born 
December 5, 1807; married Miss Eliza Cox, daughter of Joseph 
Cox, August 28, 1833.  The following children were born to 
them: George W Collins, June 25, 1834, died in 1837; Joseph 
R Collins, April 9, 1836, died quite young: James C Collins, 
August 20, 1840, served three years in the Civil War, 
Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry; William H Collins, February 
13, 1843, served nearly four years in the Seventh 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, promoted to captain of his company 
with the Army of Cumberland, in a number of battles and 
raids and was at the capture of Jefferson Davis; Susan E 
Collins, October 21, 1845, married William Parkhill of 
Franklin township; Sarah L Collins, April 24, 1848, died 
young; Eliza Alice Collins, October 24, 1849, married Clay 
Shaw of Connellsville.  They are the children of Eliza Cox 
Collins who died July 22, 1851.
    William Collins again married Mary B Stone of Knox 
county, Ohio, October 1, 1851, and to them were born the 
following children: Mary A Collins, July 20, 1852, married 
Henry Ackley of Kansas; John E Collins, May 26, 1854; Alonzo 
D Collins, May 18, 1857; Ida M Collins, July 20, 1858, 
married John Smith of Kansas; Margaret O Collins, August 17, 
1862, died young; Charles E Collins, December 4, 1864.
    William Collins was always found on the side of morality 
and right. He was a public spirited and highly respected 
citizen.  He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
church at East Liberty.  He moved to Kansas in December, 
1882, where he lived pleasantly surrounded by seven of his 
ten children, and died October 24, 1888, reaching the ripe 
age of over four score years.  His six sons were, by 
request, his pall bearers to the grave.
    Lutelus L Collins was educated in the common schools and 
at Chesterville Seminary, Ohio.  In 1857 he went from 
Fayette county, Penna, to Kansas where he helped seat the 
first free state legislature at Lecompton in 1858.  He 
afterwards went overland to California where he worked in 
the gold mines of Nevada county.  On December 5, 1862, he 
went from San Francisco to Panama on a Pacific mail 
steamship, crossed the isthmus from Panama to Aspinwall by 
railroad, from there to New York on the steamship Aerial 
which was chased on the route by the celebrated Confederate 
cruiser, the Alabama.
    In August, 1864, he enlisted in the Sixth Regiment of 
Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery for the defense of Washington 
City; was soon detailed as clerk at headquarters, DeRussey's 
division, and served in that capacity until mustered out of 
the service June 13, 1865, at Washington.  He returned to 
Fayette county, and has been engaged in farming and stock 
business ever since.
    On November 5, 1863, he married Miss Anna Stoner, 
daughter of Christian Stoner and Mary H Shallenberger 
Stoner.  Their union has been blessed with nine children, 
two died in infancy, born and named as follows: Mary E 
Collins, September 21, 1864, died May 18, 1882; George A 
Collins, November 10, 1866, married Lizzie Leighty, daughter 
of William Leighty of Ohio; John W Collins, August 18, 1868; 
Blanche Collins, April 20, 1871; Curte C Collins, October 
26, 1876; Ken H Collins, February 19, 1881; and Florence 
Collins, March 22, 1886.
    L L Collins bought the farm where he now lives from his 
father.  He is a good farmer, raises good stock, and 
everything about the farm is kept in good condition; has 
served as school director; is an elder in the C P church at 
East Liberty, and a member of the William Kurtz Post 104, G 
A R at Connellsville.

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