The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-24
MAYoR-ELEcT OF BOSTON.
Interesting Life History or ten
 Patrick A. Collins.

Boston Journal. ., patric,s A. The life story of General FatrlcA N Collins is an interesting ,odIa,d one was the l Fermoy, County Cork, lrei9hu M@7 .t at place of his birth, and the the datS datSo,' Ui Ihu, event was March 12. lS4i. when rou years old he became an liiiiits' iIis %i,e t, | throuph force of circumstances. fiis la l ther had died, leaving the famll! ue pendent upon .hc resources or tho t ilioti- CT. The problem of rearing her lanlIs in Ireland during these terrible yeas was n tremendc Is one. The alternative America, extended p hope that there would be opportunities for herSeh @ anu her children which were denitd er,t hnrld ,nrid up her childrel and her little effects ana 1 sailed for this country and establisheo domicle at Chelsea. Patrick was sent to school until ne was | 12 years of age. Then he became the | office boy of a lawyer and it was Tn tnls office that his dreams first began to take definite shape. How to realize tneln III, was another question. He had no means | to pay for his education, and the neces- sty of helping his mother took every | penny that he could earn. In the laW, vers office his earnings were so small | ina he resigned and went to work in q store =. | Even then the prospects were far from | bright and, following the Westward star,
 which held out an alluring invitation the | family moved to the new country ol | Ohio. where Patrick worked at various
 trades, and even dug coal as a miner
 
 saw that the opportunities which he had
 hoped to find there were not in harmony
 with his dreams, so he returned to DOS | ton, two years later, and became aa | upholstery apprentice in the store of F. M Holmes x Go. His progress there was
 rapid and in short time he was made
 foreman of the shop.
 | ment was in it's infancy but he was From
 the start strong believer m It. ana
 he was at one time the only foreman lii | hat ri
 was a member of a trades union. lie was
 promoted to the position Of Secretary or
 the union. and was later selected as
 delegates to the Trades Assembly,, body
 corresponding to the Central Labor IT.
 ion of the present day.
 While working as an upholsterer he
 determined that he would become d
 lawyer, and after he had accumulated |, little money he resigned his position as
 foreman with F. H. Brabrook X Co, and entered the law, office of ,o. J, M M; the month previous he had been nomi-
 mated as Representative. He took ms seat in the House of lS6S then young
 man of g years, was reelected. and
 then served two terms in the Senate.
 During his legislative career he applied
 himself to the study Of law, ana m . April, 1871, after completing his course at
 the Harvard Law School, he was ad-
 mtted to the bar.
 z For the next ten years he closely ap- piled himself to the practice of his pro F. fession, although he maintained his in-
 terest in political and other public mat ters hi 1873 he was made Chairman of t the Democratic City Committee, ana l served two terms in that capacity In . 1876 he was elected delegate at large to r the Democratic National Convention, an t honor which he also received in 1SSO' : In 1882 he was elected to Congress and u U reelected in 1884 and 1886, declining, a K fourth nomination. At Washington hls r ability as a legislator was recognized, g | q he s Judiciary Committee. During his last l. term he was also member of the Com o mittee on the Pacific Railroads. He was one of the originators Of the e National Bankruptcy bill, which has T since become law. MT. Coihns adNo- d cated it in several speeches. but 1t was e impossible to secure its passage at that . time.
 The original bill was reported r n March, 1884, and although it did not be- U come a law for fourteen years It may e be said that he is entitled to large
 share of the credit for its ultimate sue Y cess. He also interested himself in the International Copyright bill, the blll TOT y the settlement of the French spolation J. and Alabama claims. and Was interested
 in securing their settlement From lSS : to 1890 MT. Collins was Chairman of tht ;- Democratic State Committees
 It is said that his speech in Albany '- in behalf of Grover Cleveland in lN>i was l, the pivot on which MT. CleV"land's cleo is tion turned. Whether that be certain gr " not it is true that il Was d masterlI J. effort and it had grelt influence IT Id turning tur tide of votes of those, Iris! u hv birth or descent. who were being at D. tracted to the candidacy or James G Q Elaine.
 =, Mr. Collins resided in South BostoT u from 1>6o to fASS when the purchased th' $ beautiful estate on Mount ida, in Dor ,- chester. This he sold when he was ap pointed Consul General At London b! ,G President Cleveland in lS93 and he nov , resides cn Corey Road. Brighton. ii'
 family consists uf his wifn, two daughters It ana 2 son. General CDllluss wife wa' n Miss Mary F.. Carey of Boston.
 His title, by the way. is one which h.
 neyCr makes uso of. although he is ire
 fCrred on him by Governor Gaston II t l-75 when he made him Judge AdVoeat r General on his stan.
 r. He is interested aS z Director in tn t International Trust C"mp3HE, and IS 5s member of the [ uion Institution for Say DO ings. He is also Chairman "t the Amer .o ican Board of Trustees 91 the N9u"n3 y,. Assurance Company of Ireland. II" I " a member and past President ot tn u Charitable Irish Society. and als" ot th
 C4thoic Union, which he assisted in or en ganizine. He is also m mh5T I,,,4 ni m il New York, the Young Mems Democrat Id Club of Massachusetts, the New Englan n, Tariff Reform League, the Boston Bl III Association. the Boston Athletic Asso ,il Ciation. and is President of the Mas ul sachusetts Society for the Prevention q
 Cruelty tO Animals.
 SC He takes but little interest Tn club life ha however When not at his office he ca
 generally b0 found at his homo. com no fortablv ensconced in his library an es deep in his books, which have been hi - teachers since he was obliged to leav VI school.
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