Byron Collins

Brief Life History of Byron

When Byron Collins was born on 2 August 1884, in Shelby, Iowa, United States, his father, Eli Atkinson Collins, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane Graybill, was 31. He married Theresa Rachel O'Day on 25 July 1910, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Blair, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada in 1920 and Cuming Township, Cuming, Nebraska, United States in 1920. He died on 1 May 1920, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Shelby, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

Byron Collins
1884–1920
Theresa Rachel O'Day
1873–1953
Marriage: 25 July 1910
Lois Margaret Collins
1911–1991
John Sloan Collins
1914–1970

Sources (16)

  • Byron Collins in household of Elizabeth J Collins, "Iowa State Census, 1895"
  • Byron Collins, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
  • Byron Collins, "United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1886 · Giving Working Men a Union

The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Colin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.

Irish and Manx: shortened Anglicized from Ó Coileáin, compare Cullen , or in Man or west Ulster shortened from Mac Coileáin, compare McQuillan and McCallion . The genitival -s is a local addition to Collin and variants after the surname was Anglicized.

Americanized form of French Colin or Collin and also Collette .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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