Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . ins. Was bornin Newton April 21:, 1811, and died there July 25, 1879, agedsixty-eight. He descended from a family of English Collins the first settled in Marblehead, and becamefamous in public life, holding the office of High Sheriff. Hisson, Matthias the second, came to Newton in 1778, and pur-chased one hundred acres of land, upon which he lived until hisdeath in 1785. He left an only child, Matthias the third, fatherof the subject of this sketch. His
Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . ins. Was bornin Newton April 21:, 1811, and died there July 25, 1879, agedsixty-eight. He descended from a family of English Collins the first settled in Marblehead, and becamefamous in public life, holding the office of High Sheriff. Hisson, Matthias the second, came to Newton in 1778, and pur-chased one hundred acres of land, upon which he lived until hisdeath in 1785. He left an only child, Matthias the third, fatherof the subject of this sketch. His wife, Hannah Jackson, wasdescended from Edward Jackson, one of the first settlers of New-ton, and a companion of John Eliot. Sebas Jackson, his son,was born, it is said, on the voyage from England. His Ephraim Jackson, who served in the old French War,was in the War of the Revolution, participating in several battlesprevious to the terrible sufferings at Valley Forge, where he was the grandfather of Hannah Jackson, mother of EdwardJ. Collins, whose education was confined to the district schools of. HON. JOSEPH H. WAITT, of Malden,County Commissioner, 1862-1874. ANCIENT MIDDLESEX. 103 his native town, supplemented by a course of training at thehands of that venerable pedagogue, Hon. Seth Davis, himself aCommissioner of Middlesex County from 1842 to 1845, whosewise precepts and sound principles undoubtedly laid the founda-tions of that practical knowledge of general affairs developed byhis student later on, contributing to the accumulation of a largefortune through the avenues of legitimate trade. In 1832, at theage of twenty-one, he engaged in the manufacture of glue, con-tinuing therein with great financial success until 1870, a period ofthirty-eight years. He enjoyed the confidence of his fellow-citizens to a remarkable degree. In 1858 and 1859 he was theirRepresentative in the General Court. He had served as Assessorand Selectman, and at the time of his d
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