Ellen COLLINS

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(Ref: Will of her grandfather, Benjamin Whitaker.) She was 10 years old. 

Portrait & Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley Oregon." Chapman Publishing Company, 1903. p. 1126.

HON. JAMES L. COLLINS

The marriage of Judge Collins occurred in Polk county in 1861, Miss Mary Whiteaker becoming his wife. She was born in De Kalb county, Ill., in 1846, the daughter of Benjamin Whiteaker, who was one of the pioneers of Polk county in 1847, and a relative of John Whiteaker, the first governor of Oregon. Mrs. Collins died in 1864, leaving one daughter, Nellie, who is a graduate of La Creole Academy, the state normal school at Monmouth, and the New York state normal college at Oswego, N. Y. She is now critic in the state normal school at Madison, S. D., which position she has occupied for the past ten years.