Henry Rollins, a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, came to America during the Revolutionary War and fought for the Colonies at Brandywine. His son Dr. Anthony Wayne Rollins, born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1783, taught school to pay for college, practiced medicine at Richmond, Kentucky, and married Sallie Harris Rodes in 1811. In the spring of 1830 he brought the family to land in western Boone County, about four miles north of the Missouri River, and he died at Richland in 1845, leaving $10,000 in his will to educate poor young people of Boone County, a fund that had grown to $30,000 by 1882. Another son, John C. Rollins, improved part of the old homestead, and his daughter Belle married David A. Jacobs in 1878. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Boone County history.
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Physician, then farmer at Richland
DR. A. W. ROLLINS, DECEASED.
Dr. Anthony Wayne Bollins was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., March 5, 1783. His father, Henry Bollins, was a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, and came to America during the Bevoliitionary war, in which he took a part on the side of the Colonies. Among engagements in which he participated, he was at the battle of wine.
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Dr. BoUins took great interest in the establishment of schools, in building churches and in all other enterprises calculated to improve the social and physical condition of the people among whom he lived. His services in behalf of the State University are set down in the history of that institution, on other pages of this work. What is known as the ''Rollins aid fund" was created by him pursuant to the following provision of his last will and testament:
Item 7tb. — Having felt the great disadvantages of poverty in the acquisition of my own education, it is my will that my executors, hereinafter named, shall, as early after my death as they may deem expedient, raise the sum of $10,000 by the sale of lands of which I may die seized, and which I have not especially bequeathed in any of the foregoing items, which sum of $10,000 I desire may be set aside for the education of such poor and indigent youths of Boone CQunty, male and female, as are not able to educate themselves.
The principal of this sum, by careful management under the direction of the County Court of Boone county, has increased to $30,000, three-fourths of the annual interest upon which sum is annually expended in giving aid to such young men and women as desire to obtain an education at the State University, and the remaining one-. fourth of the interest is added regularly to the principal. Already some hundreds of pupils have received substantial aid from this source, without which they would not have been able to prosecute their studies.
Dr. Rollins was a man of fine presence and noble mien, and cordially admired for his genial manners and high character. The engraving on another page is from a portrait by Bingham, now in the library of the University, and is said to be a good likeness of the distinguished subject.
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Lawyer, legislator and congressman, Columbia
HON. JAMES S. ROLLINS, LL. D.
James S. Rollins is a native of Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky, where he was born April 19th, 1812. His paternal grand father was a native of Ireland. His father. Dr. Anthony Wayne Rollins, was a prominent physician. His mother, whose maiden name was Rodes, was a native of Albemarle county, Virginia. May. Rollins had six brothers and sisters, all of whom are dead, except his youngest sister, who is the wife of Hon. Curtis F. Burnam, a former assistant secretary of the United States treasury.
In early youth May. Rollins pursued an academic course in his
1 So much has been written and published of Major Rollins, and such frequent mention is made of him and his connection with Boone county in the general history of this volume, that a condensed sketch is deemed sufficient for the purposes of this work. Indeed, to publish anything like a complete biography of so distinguished a subject would require a volume in itself, and far transcend the limits of this publication.
native town, and in 1827 entered Washinirton Colleofe, Pennsylvania, but at the end of the junior year, he left this institution and entered the University of Indiana, at Bloomington, where he graduated in 1830. His parents having removed to Boone county, May. Rollins, after gradmitimr, joined them. Coniino: to Missouri, he took charsfe of his father’s plantation for one year. He then read law under Hon.. Abiel Leonard, and spent two years at the Transylvania Law School Lexington, Kv., where he graduated in 1834. He at once entered upon the duties of his profession at Columbia, Missouri. During the Black Hawk war he served for about six months on the staff of Gen.. Richard Gentry. In 1836 May. Rollins and his law partner, Thomas
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Son of Dr. Rollins; died before 1882
Daughters of Dr. Rollins
Oldest son of James S. Rollins
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