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4 COLLINS, CHARLES H., Lawyer, was born in
Maysville, Mason county, Kentucky, April I5th,
I834. He was the sixth child in a family of
eight children whose parents were Richard Col lins and Mary A. (Armstrong) Collins. HIis
father, a native of New Jersey, followed through
life the profession of law, and also for a time was engaged
in mercantile pursuits. In I8OI Richard Collins moved to
Clermont county, Ohio, with his father's family, w he nce, in
after life, he removed.to Hillsborough, Highland county,
in the same State; subsequently he settled in Maysville,
Kentucky, where, and also in the former place, he became
well known as a successful and brilliant legal practitioner;
he became also a general of militia, served ill the Ohio
Legislature through three terms, was a member of the Ken tucky Legislature also through three terms, and was the
first President of the Maysville & Lexington Railroad; his
decease occurred at his old homestead, in Clermont county,
Ohlio, illn 855 C. C.H. Collins' mother, a nati ve of Mays villen, Kentucky, was a daughter of ohn Armstrong, a
prominent merchant and one of the pioneer settlers of that
county; she died in I838. His paternal grandfather, John
Collins, was an early and widely esteemed settler of Cler mont county, Ohio; his maternal grandfather died in I85I.
His preliminary education was liberal, and received at the
Maysville Academy, where he graduated ill I850, at the
youthful age of sixteen. After his graduation he became
b)ookkeeper in the house of John W. Ellis & Co., dry-goods
merchants, of Cincinnati, Ohio. At the expiration of one
year, spent in this establishment, he began the reading of
law, under the supervision of Thomas J. Gallagher, a
prominent attorney of the Queen C.ty. During the follow ing four years he devoted himself sedulously to the study
of his text-books, and in 1855, after passing the required
examination, was admitted to the bar at Batavia, Ohio. In
the course of the ensuing year he weas elected Prosecuting
Attorney of Clermlont County, and served ill that office for
a period of two years. In I858 he moved to Missouri,
settling in Lexington, where he was engaged in professional
labors until I864. In -January of this year he returned to
Ohio and established his office at Hillsborough, Highland
county, where he has since resided, the fortunate possessor
* of a highly remunerative legal business and the respect and
esteem of the bar and the general community. In I866 he
was the Democratic candidate for the position of Common
Pleas Judge for Highland, Ross and Fayette counties.
Politically, he is a supporter of Democratic principles and
measures, while his religious convictions are embodied in the
formula of the Methodist Chur ch. His integrity of character
is unassailable; his social demeanor is pleasant and affable,
and his literary and professional attainments ale of a high
older of merit. He was married in I857 to Mary E. Tice, of
Bethel, Clermont county, Ohio, a daulghter of C. C. Tice,
an early pioneer of that section of the State. C. H. Collins,
in addition to his high standing at the bar, has acquired
AITE, HON. MORRISON RENNICK, LL. D.,
a Lawyer, and the present Chief-Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States, was born,
Kn y w November 29th, I8i6, at Lyme, Connecticut, and
wis a son of the late Henry Matson and Maria
Waite; the former was a Judge of the Supreme
Court of Connecticut from I834 to I854, and firom the
latter year until I1857 he was Chief-Justice; he died,
December I4th, I869, in his eighty-third year. Morrison
completed his education at Yale College, graduating there from in the class of I837, among whose members were
Hon. Edwards Pierrepont and William M. Evarts. Imme diately after leaving college he entered upon the study of
the law with his father, and remained there until October,
I838, when he removed to Maumee county, Ohio, continu in g his studies in the office of Samuel M. Young, a promi nent attorney of that section. He was admitted to the bar
of Ohio in October, I839; prior to which date, however,
he had formed a business connection with his preceptor,
under the firm-name of Young & Waite, which partnership
lasted until I852. He represented the Maumee district in
the lower branch of the Legislature during the years I849
and I85o, and after the expiration of his term, in the latter
year, he removed to Toledo, where he has ever since re sided. In I1858 he associated Richard Waite with him,
under the name and style of M. R. & R. Waite, which firm
continued until I874. In the year I862 he ran as an independent conservative Republican, in the Tenth Congressional District of Ohio, against James M. Ashley, the
regular Republican nominee, and also against a regular
Democratic opponent. The election, however, resulted in
Ashley's being chosen by a plurality of I127 votes over
Waite, although in an actual minority of 4105. On each
subsequent election Ashley lost ground through the active
and repeated oratorical assaults of Judge Waite, who threw
the whole weight of his influence against him until he' was
finally defeated. In November, I87 I, Judge Waite was
selected by President Grant as one of the three counsel to
represent the United States before the Tribunal of Arbitration, at Geneva, Switzerland, his associates being Hons.
William M. Evarts and Caleb Cushing. In this position
ih e acquitted himself admirably. He returned from this
duty in November, I872. During this same year his A4/ma
./ialfter conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor
of Laws. During the following year he was elected a
"me m'er of the Conventiod to Revise the Constitution of the
State of Ohio, and on its organization was elected President
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