Charles Livingston Collins

Brief Life History of Charles Livingston

When Charles Livingston Collins was born on 14 October 1869, in Petersburg, Menard, Illinois, United States, his father, Henry Smith Collins, was 43 and his mother, Mary Jane Sutton, was 37. He married Hortence Nation on 21 May 1891, in Menard, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Capital Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 28 December 1952, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 83.

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Charles Livingston Collins
1869–1952
Hortence Nation
1873–1908
Marriage: 21 May 1891
Gladys Collins
1892–1963
Lawrence Collins
1894–1899
Collins
1896–

Sources (15)

  • C L Collins, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Charles Livingston Collins, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
  • Charles L Collins, "Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1871

In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.

1892 · The Chicago Canal

The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.

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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