Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2012, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== History of the Great Lakes Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899 Page 32 WILLIAM COLLINS. As a member of a shipbuilding and seafaring family, William Collins began early in life to follow in the footsteps of those who preceded him. A son of Capt. Thomas and Mary (Oades) Collins, the former a shipbuilder and vessel- master of New York State, he was born in the year 1847, and as soon as he was able to handle the tools he began to work in his father's shipyard. After devoting several years to this pursuit, he gave it up to become a sailor, following that occupa- tion for upwards of twenty years. During Page 33 HISTORY OF THE GREAT LAKES this time he sailed as seaman, wheelsman, and mate on the schooners Irene, the John Tibbetts, the Senator Blood, the Hoboken, the Montpelier, the M.F. Merrick, the Wyandotte, the Clayton Belle, the M.I. Wilcox, and the scow Misel, the steamer Commodore, and many other vessels on the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence river. In 1882 he married Miss Dorothy Haw- thorne, of Elmira, N.Y. About ten years ago he gave up sailing to return to his orig- inal occupation, that of ship carpenter. =========================================================================== ===========================================================================