. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. C COLLUM - from the very dawnof the Nineteenth Centurythese names, through theseveral generations of thefamilies for a hundred years,have been those of substan-tial men and women of Sus-quehanna county. Amongthem, and of whom it is thepurpose of this article to especially treat, are theHon, Joseph Brewster McCollum, Justice
. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. C COLLUM - from the very dawnof the Nineteenth Centurythese names, through theseveral generations of thefamilies for a hundred years,have been those of substan-tial men and women of Sus-quehanna county. Amongthem, and of whom it is thepurpose of this article to especially treat, are theHon, Joseph Brewster McCollum, Justice of the Su-preme Court of Pennsylvania, and Alexander , one of the foremost lawyers in this sec-tion of the State, with residence at Montrose. The McCollums of New York State, whencecame the Susquehanna county (Penn.) family, wereof Scotch origin. Alexander McCollum, the great-grandfather of J. B. and A. H. McCollum, of Mont-rose, emigrated from Scotland during the eighteenthcentury and settled near Albany, N. Y., where heremained, a farmer, through life. Two of his sons,Hugh and Alexander, the latter of whom was thegrandfather of the McCollum brothers, migratedfrom near Albany, N. Y., to Susquehanna county,Penn., about 1810, and settled in
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