Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870

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Dates:

Birth 1797

Death 1870

Biographical notes:

Henry Perviance Peers (1807-1846) of Maysville, Kentucky, was the younger brother of Benjamin O. Peers, president of Transylvania University. H.P. Peers attended Transylvania University, but did not graduate. He assembled materials for, and wrote a draft of, a planned publication A complete gazetteer of the state of Kentucky . Peers did not complete this work before he died in March of 1846. After his death, his brother-in-law, Lewis Collins (1797-1870, newspaper editor and judge of Mason County, Kentucky) used Peers' work as a basis for the county and town information for Collins' 1847 publication, Historical sketches of Kentucky. Collins' history was the first illustrated history of Kentucky and the most complete work to date.

From the guide to the Henry Perviance Peers papers for, A complete gazetteer of the state of Kentucky, ca. 1842-1846., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)

Henry Perviance Peers (1807-1846) assembled materials for, and wrote a draft of, a planned publication A complete gazetteer of the state of Kentucky. Peers did not complete this work before he died in March of 1846. After his death, his brother-in-law, Lewis Collins (1797-1870, newspaper editor and judge of Mason County, Kentucky) used Peers' work as a basis for the county and town information for Collins' 1847 publication, Historical sketches of Kentucky.

From the description of Henry Perviance Peers papers for A complete gazetteer of the state of Kentucky, 1842-1846. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612785491

Lewis Collins was a journalist and long-time editor of the Maysville Eagle, and author of Collins̕ Historical Sketches of Kentucky, in 1847. His son, Richard Collins wrote a two- volume History of Kentucky, based on his father̕s earlier work.

From the description of Lewis Collins papers, 1830-1871. (Kentucky Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 28616762