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Homer Collins memorabilia

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 37-5-3852

Scope and content

Cabinet card photographs of Cornell classmates, primarily from 1881 and 1882, but some from 1878-1888; cabinet card views of Cornell; tuition receipt for $25 from 1881; and two annotated lists of alumni from the Class of 1882, 1930s.

Dates

1878-1939.

Creator

Collins, Homer, 1859-1949. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Cornell University Class of 1882. He was born in Perinton (near Fairport), Monroe County, NY, on January 4, 1859 and attended high school at the Rochester Free Academy in Rochester. He entered Cornell in 1877 and graduated in 1882, with a Bachelor of Science degree. He received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1884. He practiced medicine in Duluth, Minnesota, where he died on July 29, 1949.