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Cook County, where he worked on his father's farm. Later he entered the Evanston Theological Seminary, where he remained ten years, then entered the ministry in 1858 and has filled various charges, including Dundee, Palatine and Burlington; was superannuated in 1875, and has since resided at Dundee. He was first married in 1843 to Miss Jeanette Boreland who died in 1896, and on Feb. 28, 1897, he married his second wife, Mrs. Mary (Skidmore) Manzer, of Dundee.
CHARLES M. COATS, manufacturer, Aurora, Ill., was born in Otsego County, N. Y., Sept. 12. 1850, and educated in the public schools, Whitesboro Seminary and Hamilton College, N. Y., 1870; for three years was engaged in mercantile business, but moved to Indianapolis, Ind., in 1873, where he conducted a fruit and produce commission business for seven years. Coming to Aurora in 1890, he embarked in the manufacturing business, and in 1898 helped organize the "Yeomen of America" (an insurance society), being elected Supreme Secretary at its organization, and re-elected in 1901 and 1903.
MOSES COLBY (deceased), pioneer settler, Aurora, Ill., was born near Dover, N. H., Feb. 28, 1810 and spent his early life in his native State and in Boston, where he followed various occupations until about 1840. During that year he moved to Aurora, Ill., where his first winter was spent in the pioneer saw-mill of Samuel McCarty. Later he purchased a farm not far away from the rising village, and became a prosperous farmer. This farm was his home until he retired from an active business, life, when he located in Aurora, where he spent the most of his subsequent years. His death occurred in Corning, Iowa, in November, 1891, leaving Mrs. Colby, who is now (1904) the only surviving member of his family, although they reared several foster children. She was born near Lake Champlain, Clinton County, N. Y., in 1819, and is a daughter of George Hawkins, who came with his family to Aurora in 1844. Mrs. Colby is greatly interested in charitable work, and is now taking part with others in the founding of an Old Ladies' Home in Aurora.
REV. WILLIAM A. COLLEDGE, D. D., clergyman, Aurora, born in Edinburg, Scotland, in November, 1858. was educated in the Presbyterian Church School at Glasgow, and in London, England. In 1892 he received his degree of Doctor of Divinity from Adrian College, Mich., the same year becoming extension lecturer for the University of Chicago. In 1894 he was called to the pulpit of the People's church in Aurora, from Cadillac, Mich., where he had been located for five years.
CORNELIUS COLLINS, Alderman, Batavia, Ill., born at Sycamore, Ill., Feb. 6, 1862, son of Daniel and Alice (McCullough) Collins. Daniel Collins removed with his family to Batavia, Kane County, when the son Cornelius was a boy, and here the latter was reared and received his educational training in the city schools. Cornelius Collins was engaged in contracting and building and in the stone trade for several years, but since 1887 has also conducted a meat market in Batavia. In political sentiment he is a Democrat and, at the present time (1903), is serving his fellow-citizens as a member of the Batavia Board of Aldermen.
CHARLES E. COLWELL, physician and surgeon, Aurora, Ill., born at Newburgh, N. Y., June 19, 1864; obtained his medical training at the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago,
