Hiram Price Collier (1860 - 1913)

Born 25 May 1860 in Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Gertrude Augusta (Dame) Collier — married 9 Jun 1886 (to before 9 Aug 1893) in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 3 Nov 1913 at age 53 in Vesthimmerland Kommune, Nordjylland, Denmark

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Biography

Hiram Price Collier was born at Davenport, Iowa, May 25, 1860.^[1] He was the son of Robert Laird and Mary (Price) Collier.^[1]

1870 United States Census - Chicago, Cook, Illinois^[2]

Household	Sex	Age	Birthplace
Robert L Collier	Male	34	Maryland
Mary T Collier	Female	29	Ohio
Hiram P Collier	Male	10	Iowa
Levin D Collier	Male	8	Iowa
Louise E Collier	Female	6	Illinois
Ellen Singer	Female	20	Ireland

He lived, while a boy, in Switzerland and England.^[3]

In early life he was a student at Geneva, Switzerland; also at Leipsic, Germany.^[1]

After returning to the United States he entered Harvard Divinity School, and was graduated in the class of 1882 B.D. He became a Unitarian clergyman.^[3] On the 29th of Sept. following, he was ordained pastor of the First Parish in Hingham.^[1] He retired from the ministry in 1891.^[3]

He retired from the ministry in 1891. He is best known for his clever sketches of national character in America and the Americans from the French Point of View (1896); England and the English from an American Point of View (1909); The West in the East from an American Point of View (1911) and Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View (1913). He died on the island of Funen, in the Baltic Sea, Nov. 3 1913.^[3]

He married first June 9, 1886, Gertrude Augusta, daughter of Frank 0. and Mary W. Dame of Boston. She was born at Boston, July 20, 1860. ^[1]

Hiram lived on Cottage Street in Hingham.^[1]

He married second in 1893, Katherine Robbins Delano "Kassie" (1860-1953).^[4]

He died 3 Nov 1913. Either on the island of Funen, in the Baltic Sea^[3] or Tandrup, Vesthimmerland Kommune, Nordjylland, Denmark.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts (The Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1893) Vol II, p.136
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M642-Z3L : 19 March 2020), Robert L Collier, 1870.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} Encyclopedia Britannica 1911
4. ↑ Franklin Roosevelt's Maternal Ancestry Aunts and Uncles
5. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 25 October 2020), memorial page for Price Collier (25 May 1860–3 Nov 1913), Find A Grave: Memorial #197468361, citing Saint Mary's-In-Tuxedo Church Cemetery, Tuxedo Park, Orange County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Bobby Kelley (contributor 46959922) Cremated.