Collins, Jb

Collins, J.B.

a Free-will Baptist minister, was born in 1821; converted in 1839, and united with the Church in Morristown, Vermont. Four years after, he commenced his ministerial labors, removed to Clinton County, N.Y., in 1845, and shortly after settled in Franklin, where he was ordained. After several years he removed to St. Lawrence County, and labored in that section and in Jefferson County until 1877. He preached successively in Morristown, Depauville, Philadelphia, Keeseville, and other places. In 1877 he took charge of the Church in Dickinson Centre; in 1880 he became pastor of the Church in Underhill Centre, Vermont, and preached a part of. the time at East Cambridge. He died in March, 1883. See Morning Star, July 25, 1883. (J.C.S.)