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Born 1812
From History of Boone County, Missouri. Written and comp. from the most authentic official and private sources; including a history of its townships, towns, and villages. Together with a condensed history (1882)
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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As printed in History of Boone County, Missouri. Written and comp. from the most authentic official and private sources; including a history of its townships, towns, and villages. Together with a condensed history (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name James S. Rollins: J. B. Allison (b. 1828) John Boyle Gordon A. W. Rollins (b. 1783) G. W. Trimble (b. 1839) Solon E. Smith (b. 1846) Francis T. Russell Squire Turner (b. 1836)
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