Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Margaret Hill MORRIS
She married there, October 4, 1810, Isaac Collins Jr, eleventh child of Isaac and Rachel (Budd) Collins, of Trenton. New Jersey, where he was born October 31,1787. He had served eight years apprenticeship in a mercantile house and was then engaged in the mercantile trade In New York City as a member of the firm of Mott & Collins, and later a member of the firm of Isaac Collins & Company, publishers and printers. The family resided in New York until 1828, when they removed to Philadelphia. Mr. Collins had acquired a comfortable fortune and retired from active business. After the removal to Philadelphia he became identified with the leading charitable enterprises and institutions of that city, and was deeply interested in the cause of education as well as in the temperance and anti-slavery cause. He was a founder of Haverford College; member of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge; director of the Public School System and an official in a number of philanthropic and charitable Institutions. The founding of the Institute for Feeble Minded Children was largely due to his efforts . Mrs. Margaret Collins health was very much debilitated before the removal from New York, that being the main cause of the removal, which doubtless prolonged her life; but she died four years later, April 22, 1832. Isaac Coffins married (second) January 28, 1835, Rebecca, daughter of John Singer, a prominent merchant of Philadelphia. She was an eminent minister of the Society of Friends, and survived her husband many years, dying April, 18,1892 at the age of eighty-seven years. Mr. Collins died January 15, 1863.
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