From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Page 503
 
JOSEPH COLLIE, son of George COLLIE and Mary ROSS, was born in Aberdeenshire, 
November 14, 1825.  He was left fatherless in his boyhood, and in 1836 his 
mother came with her children to the neighborhood of Aurora, and a few years 
later to Platteville, Wisconsin.  He seemed a predestined student and teacher, 
and he continued his education from the common school to an academic course at 
Mineral Point, and thence to Beloit College, where he was graduated about 
1851.  He had worked his way to this end as many an American boy has done, and 
this under somewhat unusual difficulty, that of congenital lameness.  In 1854 
he was graduated from Andover, and in 1855 was ordained and installed in the 
Congregational church at Delavan, and continued in its pastorate through his 
active life.  He married November 4, 1856, Ann Eliza, daughter of Rev. Lucius 
FOOTE.  He died July 8, 1904.  For many years he owned a bit of land at the 
entrance of Williams Bay, on the north shore of Geneva Lake, with a landing 
place for steamers - likely to be known long hence as heretofore to local 
geographers as Camp Collie.
 
Submitted By:  Carol
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