History of Lowville, (Lewis County) New York United States of America

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Ela Collins, representative, was born in Meriden, Conn., Feb. 14, 1786. He practised law in Lowville, N.Y., and was for twenty-one years district attorney of Lewis county, meanwhile conducting a large and productive farm. In 1814 he commanded a regiment of state militia at Sacket Harbor. He repeatedly represented Oneida county in the state assembly and was a member of the state constitutional convention of 182l. He was a representative in the 18th congress, 1823-25, and at the close of the last session, March 3, 1825, he retired from public life. His son William, born in Oneida county, was also a lawyer in Lowville, and a representative in the 30th congress, later removing to Cleveland, Ohio Ela Collins died at Lowville, N.Y., Nov. 23, 1848.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Charles Monroe Dickinson, diplomatist, was born in Lowville, N.Y., Nov. 15, 1842; son of Richard and Betsey (Rea) Dickinson; grandson of Joseph and Jane (Crocker) Dickinson and of Philip and Rebecca Rea, and great-grandson of Capt. Richard Dickinson of Saybrook, Conn., an officer in the Revolutionary army. He was educated at the Lowville academy and at Fairfield seminary, taught school, did newspaper work, and studied law in the office of Daniel S. Dickinson at Binghamton, N.Y. He was admitted to the bar in 1865 and practised in Pennsylvania, in Binghamton, N.Y., and in New York city, 1865-78. He became editor and proprietor of the Binghamton, N.Y., Republican in 1878 and also engaged in business enterprises in Binghamton and in Chicago, Ill. He was a presidential elector in 1897 and was appointed by President McKinley U.S. consul general to Turkey. He was elected a member of the Authors' club, New York, in 1897, a trustee of the endowment fund of the Barlow industrial school, Binghamton, N.Y.; a member of the executive committee of the New York associated press in 1892, and a member of the advisory board of Philadelphia museums in 1896. He was married March 24, 1867, to Bessie Virginia, only daughter of the Hon. Giles W. Hotchkiss. He is the author of: The Children and Other Verses (1889). His poem "The Children" has been reprinted in over forty different schoolbooks and collections of verse.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor