Thomas Collins and Sarah Lowrey

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Husband Thomas Collins ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1774 - Dublin, Ireland 2
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           Died: 17 Feb 1814 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 3
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Wife Sarah Lowrey

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         Father: Stephen Lowrey (      -      )
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Children

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1 F Lydia S. Collins ^{4 5}

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         Spouse: Hon. William Blair McClure (1807-1861) 3 4 5 6

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2 F Sarah North Collins ⁷

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         Spouse: Hon. Wilson McCandless, LL.D. (1810-1882) 3 8 9
           Marr: 4 Dec 1834 7

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3 F Valeria Collins

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         Spouse: Evan Reese Evans (1802-1837) 10 11

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Collins

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He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at Trinity College in his native city; came to the United States in 1790; studied law in the office of Mark Biddle, Esq., in Reading, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bar of Berks County August 8, 1794, and to the bar of Allegheny County in December of the same year. From Pittsburgh, where he first settled, like all the lawyers of any note in the early years of the nineteenth century, he "rode the Circuit" from the Ohio River to Lake Erie, and the Counties south of the Ohio and east of the Allegheny near Pittsburgh. He soon attained an enviable position at the bar. Large landed interests of his wife in Butler County, however, soon after the organization of that County, required him to transfer his residence from Pittsburgh to the town of Butler, and contracted the range of his practice.
Chief Justice Agnew said of him: "The reputation of Thomas Collins has been perpetuated without a stain or a blemish"; and gave him the second place in the list of lawyers which he said would "Serve to give character to the lawyers of that day" (1804).

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 254.

2 —, Proceedings of the Celebration of the First Centennial of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Franklin, PA: The Venango County Bar Association, 1905), Pg 58.

3 —, Proceedings of the Celebration of the First Centennial of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Franklin, PA: The Venango County Bar Association, 1905), Pg 59.

4 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 384.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 585.

6 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part I (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 255.

7 —, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. I (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889), Pg 146.

8 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part I (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 261.

9 —, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. I (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889), Pg 145.

10 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 19.

11 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 38.