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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Frederic COLLINS, farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Lockport; was born in Berkshire, Tioga Co., N. Y., 
June 29, 1812; he was engaged in farming with his parents until the year 1833, when be came 
to this county and first settled on Secs. 27 and 28, and obtained a pre-emption upon the 
land, where he resided forty-one years, and in the winter of 1874, moved to where he now 
resides; Mr. COLLINS was among the first settlers, when a fence was a novelty and the red 
men were their neighbors. He married Miss Nancy Mason WHITE, daughter of Jonah WHITE, of 
Spencer, Mass., in Lockport Twp., March 13, 1839; she was born in Skaneateles, N. Y., July 
23,1814; they had four children three living - Horatio, born Feb. 3, l840; Adeline Eliza 
(now Mrs. HATCH), born Sept. 19, 1841, and Ellen Samantha (now Mrs. BIRD, of Michigan), 
born Aug. 13, 1850, and Emma Adella, born Sept. 5, 1856, and died July 26, 1857. Mr. 
COLLINS has passed through the many struggles and incidents and dangers so common to 
the pioneer of the Great West, and is to-day hardy and robust at the ripe old age of 66.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.