Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

DR.  S. M. COLLADAY, for several years a successful practicing
physician of Virginia, is a native of the city of New York; was
born Aug. 27, 1842.  His father, Charles H. Colladay, was a
native of Philadelphia, Pa., and was by occupation a last
manufacturer, and carried on business in New York for about
twenty-one years.  He was from German and French Huguenot
descent; married Miss Sarah Jane Lutes, a native of Orange
County, N.Y., who was of German and Puritan stock.  He daied in
1856; whereupon, our subject came west to Fulton County, Ill.  In
1861, he entered the army, enlisting in the 5th Michigan Vol. 
Infty., from Macomb County.  His regiment was assigned to Gen. 
Kearney's division of the 3d corps, in which divisin he served
until his discharge on account of disability, in November, 1862.
Dr. Colladay studied medicine in Fulton County, Ill., and
afterward entered the medical department of the Michigan State
University, and graduated from that institution in the class of
1874.  He spent two years practicing his profession, at Kansas
City, Mo., and in 1875 came to Virginia and entered the drug
business with Mr. J. W. Wilkinson, under the firm name of
Colladay & Wilkinson.  IN 1879, Mr. C. B. Gatton purchased Mr.
Wilkinson's interest, and the firm of Colladay & Gatton continued
the business until January, 1881, when Dr. Colladay, withdrew, to
devote his time to the practice of his profession.  October,
1874, he married Miss Cornelia H. Wilkinson, of Vermont, Fulton
County, Ill.  Mrs.  Colladay is a native of Pennsylvania, and
from childhood has lived in Fulton county.  They have two sons,
Charles and Edward.  Mrs. Charles Colladay, the doctor's mother,
is still living at Lincoln, Neb.  Of her six children, three are
still living:  our subject; Frank, a hardware merchant, of
Waterloo, Iowa; and Louise, now Mrs. Dr. E. P. Hemer, of Lincoln. 

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