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Born 1783, Westmoreland county
From History of Boone County, Missouri (1882)
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.
As printed in History of Boone County, Missouri (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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