Biography

07/22/1850 - 02/25/1927


COLLINS, Samuel, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, July 22, 1850 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; engineer; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1886; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1888); tipstaff, Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; engaged, oil business; died, February 25, 1927 in Ponca City, Kay County, Oklahoma; interred, Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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