Biography

10/02/1790 - 08/19/1852


COLLAR, Jacob, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, October 2, 1790 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; fisherman; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1831-1832 term; unsuccessful campaign, commissioner, Philadelphia County (1835); unsuccessful campaign, clerk of Quarter Sessions, Philadelphia (1851); died, August 19, 1852 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Old Kensington Burial Ground (now Palmer Cemetery), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; removed to, North Cedar Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. 


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