Brief Life History of Frank
When Mayor Frank Collier was born on 15 February 1877, in Ellis, Texas, United States, his father, James Watley Collier, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Margaret Moore, was 27. He married Dorothy McCauley on 16 April 1903, in Wichita, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Justice Precinct 4, Ellis, Texas, United States in 1880 and Justice Precinct 1, Wichita, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 24 October 1953, in Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Wichita, Texas, United States.
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- Frank Collier, "United States Census, 1950"
- Legacy NFS Source: Frank Collier - Published information: birth-name: Frank Collier
- Frank Collier, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1977"
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1881 · Construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway
Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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