Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 16 October 2005

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JAMES B. COLLINS, physician, Butlerville. Among the eminent and successful physicians of Warren County is Dr. James B. Collins. He is of English parentage, and was born in Mason County, Ky., Aug. 4, 1820. His father was a native of Massachusetts, and he, being educated in the schools so well known throughout the Union for their efficiency and thoroughness, he was well prepared for the general business of life. He immigrated to Kentucky at an early date, and, for a number of years, engaged in school teaching and surveying. The Doctor was left to his own exertions, but, by energy and industry, he prepared himself for college, which he entered at Augusta of his native State. He completed the full course of that institution, graduating with high honors, in 1844. He at once began the study of medicine with Dr. Keith, of Augusta, and completed the course in the Ohio Medical College, of Cincinnati, in 1852. Soon after graduating, the Doctor went to New Orleans, La., where he spent some two years, studying the climate and diseases peculiar to that latitude. After returning from the South, he practiced his profession at Bantam and Newburg, and finally located in Butlerville, in 1871. The Doctor has been married three times; the first time September, 1848, to Miss Sarah King, a most worthy lady. To these parents one child was born, which died, and was soon followed by its mother, 1850. Mr. Collins was married the second time in March, 1860, to Miss Gatch, a niece to Gen. Gatch. This union was blessed with four children, one daughter and three sons, of which number the three latter are living. In March, 1866, the Doctor was again bereaved by the loss of his wife, and subsequently was again married to Mrs. Hughes, a widow lady, with whom he is now living. He is an ardent Republican, espoused the war for the Union, and officiated as physician and surgeon at Camp Denison, Ohio, for some time. He is a consistent member of the M. E. Church ; a member of I. O. O. F., No. 656, Pleasant Plains, and Goshen Encampment, No. 167. He took a prominent part in the organization of the Clermont County Medical Society, and is also a working member of Warren County Medical Society. Age and care seem to sit lightly on his organization, being active and busy-----now 61. His temperate habits, social qualities and generous impulses give him, as all others, a possibility of long life and general success in the various avocations of life.