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About Rev. Hiram Price Collier
COLLIER, Price, author and historian, was born in Davenport, la., May 25, 1860, son of Robert Laird and Mary (Price) Collier, and a descendant of Robert Collier, a native of England, who emigrated in 1675 and settled in Somerset county, Md. He held, under the lord proprietary of Maryland, land called Collier's good success, near Nanticoke river, in what was then (1675) Somerset county, now Wicomico county. From 1675 to 1799, when George Collier was born, there seem to be no records in the possession of the family, which nevertheless had been living in Maryland during that interval. George Collier, a descendant of Robert Collier, married Martha Dashiel; their sou, Levin Dashiel, married Alice Dashiel, and they were the grandparents of Price Collier. On the distaff side his grandfather was Hiram Price, one of the most notable public men of Iowa. The mother of Price Collier was widely famed for her charm and virtues, and after her death a chapel was erected in Chicago in honor of her memory. His father (q. v.) (1837-90) was a distinguished Unitarian minister, and at various times served churches in Chicago, Boston, and Birmingham, England.
At the age of twelve Price Collier was put to school in Geneva, Switzerland, and during the succeeding five years lived there and in England. At the age of seventeen he prepared for Harvard College at the Joshua Kendall School, Cambridge, Mass. A serious illness prevented his entering college at this time, and he went to Germany, where he became a student at Leipzig University. In 1879 he returned to America and entered the Divinity School of Harvard University, where he was graduated (B.D.) in 1882. He immediately entered the ministry and became pastor of the old First Parish Church (Unitarian) at Hingham. Mass. In 1888 he was called to the Church of the Saviour in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1891 he resigned this pastorate and left the ministry permanently.
He at once became well known as an author, his works attracting unusual attention. As early as 1891 he published a volume of essays (E. P. Dutton & Co.), which was followed by Mr. Picket Pin and His Friends (Dutton. 1893). For nearly two years (1893) he acted as foreign editor of the Forum while living in England and was a frequent contributor to American and English periodicals. He then wrote his essays or studies of the characteristics of different nationalities, his first being America and the Americans from the French Point of View (Scribners, 1896). This volume created a sensation when it appeared, especially as some mystery was attached to the authorship of it, since Mr. Collier had withheld his name from the title page, although it had frequently been rumored that the work was from his pen. The book showed keen insight, the possession of rare critical qualities, and a thorough knowledge of American life and character. In it he was especially severe on so-called fashionable society, and particularly on Newport life and foibles, despite the fact that he himself had a recognized position in the smart world of New York. He also wrote a volume of verse, was the joint author of "A Parish for Two" (1903), and in 1905 completed a volume on "Driving" in Macmillan's Sporting Library. He next turned l.is attention to a study of the English people, and the result was his England and the English from an American Point of View" (1909), followed by "The West in the East from an American Point of View" (1911), and in 1913 "Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View."
During the war with Spain he served in the United States navy as signal officer and adjutant of the battalion, with the rank of ensign, on board the U. S. S. Prairie. He was fond of all out-of-door sports, and especially of shooting. He had a country place at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., and was a member of the Harvard, Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Army and Navy, New York Yacht, City, Midday and National Arts clubs of New York, and of various learned and historical societies. Mr. Collier's writings abounded in vigor, fire and vivacity. They were at once genuinely interesting and strikingly elegant, and free from mystery, vagueness and jargon, embodying the spirit of a man of the world who was incomparably better informed than the mass of his congeners. He analyzed with agreeable frankness the characteristics of his fellow-men, even those who sat in high places, and as an unmasker of political and social humbug he was unsurpassed. His personal attainments were very great, and he added to a singular symmetry and elevation of character an unusual intellectual culture. His literary taste was unfailing and his reading thorough and extensive. His influence over others was far-reaching, and he inspired much affection from all with whom he came in contact.
He was married in New York city, Aug. 8, 1893, to Mrs. Katherine (Delano) Robbins, daughter of Warren Delano, and a member of a distinguished New York family of Newburgh-on-Hudson. She survives him, with two children: Katharine and Sara Collier. Mr. Collier died on the Island of Funen, Baltic sea, Nov. 3. 1913.
Bibliographic information:
- Title The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time, Volume 15
- The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time, James Terry White
- Contributors George Derby, James Terry White
- Publisher J. T. White, 1916
- Original from the University of Michigan
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Rev. Hiram Price Collier's Timeline
| 1860 |
May 25, 1860
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Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, United States
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| 1891 |
September 7, 1891
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Brooklyn NY
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| 1894 |
July 12, 1894
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Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom
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| 1896 |
April 21, 1896
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Tuxedo Park, Orange County, New York, United States
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| 1913 |
November 3, 1913
Age 53
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Funen, Denmark
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1913
Age 52
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(Cremated), Copenhagen, København, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
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