Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . BOSTON OF TO-DAY. l8g brick and terra-cotta. They produce specialties ofall kinds of building-material in clay, and havesome twenty different colors now in use. In themanagement of the business of the house, gives his attention to finances and corre-spondence. [For examples of the work of Fiske,Coleman, & Co. in modern buildings in Boston andelsewhere, see sketch of George M. Fiske. Also,see sketch of William Homes.] Collins, Patrick A.
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . BOSTON OF TO-DAY. l8g brick and terra-cotta. They produce specialties ofall kinds of building-material in clay, and havesome twenty different colors now in use. In themanagement of the business of the house, gives his attention to finances and corre-spondence. [For examples of the work of Fiske,Coleman, & Co. in modern buildings in Boston andelsewhere, see sketch of George M. Fiske. Also,see sketch of William Homes.] Collins, Patrick A., son of an Irish farmer, wasborn near Fermoy, county of Cork, Ire., March 12,1844. His father dying in 1847, his mother emi-. PATRICK A. COLLINS. grated, with her children, to this country and settledin Chelsea, Mass. Ihere he attended the publicschools until he was twelve \ears old, when he wentto work first as a shop boy, and then as ofhc e boyin a Boston lawyers office. At thirteen he wasworking at various occupations in Ohio: subse-i|uently returning to Boston, he workeii at theii]iholstery trade for several years, giving his leisurehours to study ; and at nineteen was foreman of ashop. When, advancing steadily in his trade, hedetermined to become a lawyer, and in 1868 heentered the Harvard Law School. Graduating there-from, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1871,and opening an office in Boston at once beganpractice. At this time he was already prominent inpolitics. In 1868 and 1869 he was a member of the lower house of the Legislature, and in 1870and 1871 was a State senator. In 1875 he wasjudge-advocate-general of the Commonwealth. Hewas a delegate-at-large from Massachusetts to thenational Democra
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