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Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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ale in the class of1866. He then followed the common course, and himself be-came, for a time, a teacher. For four years he taught in theFree Academy at Norwich, Connecticut, at the same time him-self studying law. In the spring of 1870 he was admitted tothe bar of New London County, Connecticut, and at that timegave up school-teaching and prepared to devote his whole at-tention to the practice of his profession. He did not, however, practice it at the place where he wasfirst licensed to do so. On the contrary, he returned to NewYork State, settled at Elmira, and in the fall of 1870 was thereadmitted to the bar. For seventeen years thereafter he prac-tised law at Elmira with eminent success. In 1887 a material change came over his affairs. He was thenengaged as special counsel to the Governor of the State, theGovernor at that time being his Elmira neighbor and friend,David B. Hill. He thus served all through the remainder ofGovernor Hills administration, and also through that of his 06
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CHAKLES A. COLLIN 67 successor, Governor Flower, his incumbency of that place end-ing in 1894. At about the same time, in 1887, Mr. Collin was chosen to be aprofessor of law in the newly founded Law School of CornellUniversity, at Ithaca, New York. Two years later he was ap-pointed one of the Commissioners of Statutory Legislation bythe Governor of the State, and performed the duties of that im-portant place until the change of administration at the end of1894. In the spring of the following year, 1895, he resigned hisprofessorship at Cornell University in order to come to NewYork city and devote all his attention to the practice of the lawon a more important scale than thitherto. Mr. Collin, on coming to New York, entered into a partnershipwith William F. Sheehan, who had formerly been Lieutenant-Governor of the State, when Mr. Hill was Governor, and withwhom Mr. Collin had become closely acquainted at Albany whilehe was special counsel to the Governor. The firm of Sheehan& Colli

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