When Charles Alexander Collier was born on 28 August 1874, in Jackson, Indiana, United States, his father, Steven Patrick Collier, was 50 and his mother, Martha Bell Cummins, was 39. He married Mary Jane Welcher on 19 March 1907, in Davis, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Soap Creek Township, Davis, Iowa, United States in 1910 and Blaine, Nebraska, United States in 1920. He died on 14 March 1948, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1885: Blaine, Nebraska, United States
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English: from Middle English colier, in most parts of the country ‘maker or seller of charcoal’, but in some areas (such as Bolton le Moors and Wigan, Lancashire) where coal measures were near the surface, ‘miner or seller of coal’ (in the modern sense, ‘fossil fuel’). The name was taken to Ireland from England and was first recorded there in 1305. In Petty's ‘census’ of 1659, it was recorded as a principal surname in Meath.
English: occupational name from Middle English coilour, coliour, culliour, Old French coileor, coillour ‘tax collector’. Surnames with this origin seem to have died out in Britain.
French (northern): from collier ‘collar’, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of collars.
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