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SAMUEL S. COLLINS, wagon-maker and farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. Dawn; was born in Warren Co., Ohio, June 26, 1819, his father, Levi Collins, was born in Lewis Co., Va., in 1795, and married Elizabeth Snell in Warren Co. Ohio; they moved to in 1821, and to Shelby Co., Ind., in 1830, where he died in 1852; she died in Troy, Miami Co., in 1830. The subject of this sketch served an apprenticeship of two years in Morristown, Ind., then returned to Miami Co., Ohio, and made his first lumber wagon, and sold it for $5, not on account of the beauty of its workmanship; he followed the business twenty-five years, and has the reputation of doing first-class work; he settled permanently where he now resides in 1855, and bought land in 1865; he erected for himself a good brick residence. Last September, he had the misfortune to lose his left arm by accident. He married Jane M. Cairns March 7, 1844; she was born in Ireland Aug. 14, 1818, and died in August 1850; they had four children, viz., Jennet E., born April 23, 1845, deceased; Laura L., born Oct. 3. 1846; she married John Lehman; Albert M., born July 6, 1848, died May 3, 1872, and Geo. A., born July 10, 1850; his second marriage was with Mrs. Elizabeth McDowell, Nov. 27, 1851, widow of William McDowell, who died June 10, 1849, in Brown Co., Ohio; they had one daughter, Lucinda J., born Jan. 7, 1850, and died June 24, 1865; by this union they have had five children, viz., John W., born Jan. 23, 1853, died Sept. 30, 1854; Charles F., born Oct. 11, 1856; Jason H., Sept. 12, 1859; Franklin E., Sept. 6, 1863, and Joseph C., Dec. 17, 1868. Mrs. Collins’ father, Adam Ulery, was born in Prussia, Germany, March 24, 1787, and married Mary C. Witty in 1819; she was born in 1798; in 1810 he was drafted into the army, and served nine years under Napoleon I, they came to Baltimore, Md., in 1820, in 1826 the family consisting of himself wife and four children, and all their earthly effects in a one-horse wagon left Pennsylvania for a new home in Miami Co., Ohio; his cash assets all told were $13. He died March 7, 1876, and she died March 14, following, and at their decease they had accumulated a handsome fortune worth $15,000. Mr. and Mrs. Collins are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; he owns 366 acres bordering on the village of Dawn; in politics, is a Republican.