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Lewis Collins (Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky, attorney)

b. 1797-12-25 d. 1870-01-29

Mason County, Kentucky, attorney. Fayette County, Kentucky, native. Son of Richard Collins. Married to Mary Peers Collins in Mason County, Kentucky, on March 29, 1823. Father of Mary Catherine Collins, Valentine Peers Collins, and Maria Collins. Farmer in Mason County, Kentucky, in 1850. Employed John Bachler as a laborer in Maysville in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Mason County in 1850. Judge of the Mason County Court from 1851 to 1854. Attorney in Maysville in 1860. Employed Eliza Terrell as a servant in Maysville in 1860. Member of the Presbyterian Church.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 44B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 365.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film 000281842.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. II (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 583.

"Lewis Collins (1797-1870)," Find A Grave, Memorial 97569149, accessed June 21, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97569149.

Citation

Collins, Lewis. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198234 (November 12, 2026).

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