Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.  Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press.  p. 699.  Mason County.

RICHARD H. COLLINS, lawyer and historian, was born May 4, 1824, in
Maysville, Kentucky, and died in Missouri, in 1889.  His paternal
grandfather, Richard Collins, was a soldier of the Revolution, and his
maternal grandfather, Major Valentine Peers, was also a participant in
that great contest, both having been residents of Virginia.
     Richard H. Collins was graduated in Center College, Danville, in
1842, and in Transylvania Law School in 1846.  He largely devoted his
life to editorial work and historical research, being for ten years
editor of the Maysville Eagle and at a later period founded the Danville
Review.  Between 1851 and 1871, he also engaged in the practice of law
at Maysville, Kentucky, and at Cincinnati, Ohio, while residing at
Covington.  The work of his life, however, was the preparation of the
History of Kentucky, in two volumes, published in 1874.  This was an
enlargement of a volume published in 1847 by his father, Lewis Collins,
who was born in Fayette county, Kentucky, in 1797, and died in Lexington,
in 1870.  He was the proprietor of the Maysville Eagle from 1820 and
judge of the Mason county court from 1851 to 1854.

Collins Peers
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Boyle-KY Fayette-KY Kenton-KY OH MO

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