Lake County Biographies

J. M. COLLINS

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Was born in Indiana.  When he was but a child his parents moved to Clay County, 
Missouri, and settled on a farm.  In 1853 the subject of this sketch came across 
the plains to California, and arrived in El Dorado County in August.  Here he 
engaged in mining until the spring of 1860, when he went to Suisun, Solano 
County, where he resided until the fall of 1863, when he came to Lake County.  
Here he bought what is now known as the Howard Springs property, where he 
resided one year.  We next find Mr. Collins engaged in farming near Lower Lake, 
where he remained until the fall of 1868, when he settled on his present place, 
consisting of two hundred and one acres, located about one mile west from 
Middletown.  He married March 19, 1865, Miss Lizzie  Farmer, a native of 
Missouri.  By this union they have eight children, William M., Edward, Robert, 
Annie, Emma, Augustus, Eldorado, and Gracie.
 
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California, publ. 1881 � pg. 225