DeWitt Clinton Collins

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1827-07-15

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1909-04-10

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"DeWitt Clinton Collins" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00017898, (accessed December 26, 2024).

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Kenton County, Kentucky, bookkeeper. Indiana native. Married to Rachel Cleveland Collins in 1851. Father of Lelia Collins, Edgar Collins, William Collins, and Estelle Collins. Bookkeeper in Kenton County, Kentucky, in 1860. Employed Maria Findler as a servant in Kenton County in 1860. Served in the 16th United States Infantry as quartermaster sergeant from 1847 to 1848.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 4, p. 192.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 1, p. 322A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Kenton County Marriages, Film #0044263503.
Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, eds. Mary S. Lockwood and Susan Riviere Hetzel (Washington, D. C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939) vol. 89: 1911, p. 194.
Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the Mexican War, complied 1899-1927, Documenting the Period 1846-1848, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M638, Roll# 0013.
"Dewitt Clinton Collins (1827-1909)," Find A Grave, Memorial #94156988, accessed June 30, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94156988/dewitt-clinton-collins.

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