. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. ©qV^. CHARLES A. COLLIN THE prosperous and beautiful rural region of Benton YatesCounty, in the lake countiy of western New York, wasthe native place of Charles A. CoUin, a farmers son. He wasborn there about fifty years ago, and was the second in age otsix sons The father was a fine type of the prosperous, mtelh-aent, and ambitious farmer. Consequently, while the boys spentmost of their early life upon the farm, accustoming themselvesto its work, they also enjoyed the best educational facihtiesobtainable, and were all sent, one after the othe


. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. ©qV^. CHARLES A. COLLIN THE prosperous and beautiful rural region of Benton YatesCounty, in the lake countiy of western New York, wasthe native place of Charles A. CoUin, a farmers son. He wasborn there about fifty years ago, and was the second in age otsix sons The father was a fine type of the prosperous, mtelh-aent, and ambitious farmer. Consequently, while the boys spentmost of their early life upon the farm, accustoming themselvesto its work, they also enjoyed the best educational facihtiesobtainable, and were all sent, one after the other, to Yale Uni-versity, and were all graduated from that institution. Charles A. Colhn was graduated from Yale in the class of1866 He then followed the common course, and himseit be-came, for a time, a teacher. For four years he taught m theFree Academy at Norwich, Connecticut, at the same time him-self studying law. In the spring of 1870 he was admitted tothe bar of New London County, Connecticut, and at that tunegave up school-teaching and prepared t


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