Representative Edwin Collin View All Years

Edwin Collin

Worth County

Representative from Worth county, was born of American parentage, in Columbia county, New York, August 31, 1842. Came to Iowa with his parents in 1856, locating at Mount Vernon, where he attended school and graduated from Cornell College in 1864. He spent three years in Italy and Switzerland in consular work and after returning to the United States, took a course in the law department at the Iowa State University, graduating in the class of 1869. The same year he located at Northwood, Worth county, Iowa, where he began the practice of law, in which he has been since engaged. He was married in 1874 and has three children. He held the office of county attorney three terms. Was a delegate to the National Republican Convention at St. Louis in 1896. Elected Representative in 1910. A Republican in politics.

House District 94