- GEORGE LUCIUS COLLIE, A.M., Ph. D. This is a name familiar
to the students of Beloit
- College, and to the world of education, as the professor
of geology in that excellent institution. He was a student there
in his earlier life, and attracted attention by the fine work
he was doing throughout his college course. Passing from its
walls, he went abroad to make a more thorough preparation for
his life work as a teacher and instructor in the higher learning.
For nine years he has been a member of the Faculty of Beloit,
at present serving as the Dean of the Faculty. He is doing the
same solid work that has characterized his entire life, and is
a popular and helpful personality among the young people, upon
whom his influence for good is pronounced.
- Dr. COLLIE was born at Delavan, Wis., Aug. 11, 1857, a son
of Rev. Joseph and Ann
- (FOOTE) COLLIE, natives of Scotland and Ohio, respectively.
They were the parents of five children, four of whom are now
living; Prof. George L.; Arthur, an army surgeon at Iloilo, Panay;
Winfred, a dentist at Delavan, Wis.; and Glenwood, a student
of medicine in Chicago. Rev. Joseph COLLIE was a Congregational
clergyman in Delavan, and had been pastor of a church in that
city for more than forty years. He is now a resident of Williams
Bay, Wis. He was a chaplain in the Christian Commission, and
stationed in Kentucky, during the war of the Rebellion. His
father, George COLLIE, a native of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, was
a stone-mason, and died in his native land when a young man.
He was the father of three sons. Lucius FOOTE, the father of
Ann, was a native of Massachusetts, of English descent, and was
also a Congregational minister. He died in Sacramento, Cal.,
at the age of ninety. He was the father of two sons and one
daughter.
- Prof. George L. COLLIE spent his youth and early manhood
under the parental roof at Delavan,
- Wis., where he was graduated from the local high school in
1875. He immediately connected himself with Beloit College,
in the city of Beloit, and was graduated from that institution
in 1881. His studious youth gave promise of excellent scholarship
in his riper years, a promise that was largely fulfilled in his
college course. The young collegian was employed for a year
in a railroad office in Chicago, as a freight reviser, and then
became the assistant principal in the Delavan schools. He did
such satisfactory work that he was made principal of the same
schools. From Delavan he went to Harvard College, where he did
post-graduate work for three years, and earned and received the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1893. The same year he was
invited to Beloit College, to take the chair of geology. He
accepted the invitation, and this field has been the scene of
his work to the present time. He is a capable teacher, understands
his subject thoroughly, and present it in a magnetic and inspiring
way, well calculated to arouse the enthusiasm of his pupils.
- Dr. COLLIE and Katharine A. BURROWS were united in marriage
March 26, 1896. They
- have a fine home and a pleasant residence at No. 920 College
street, Beloit. Mrs. COLLIE is the daughter of Harmon ARY and
Eliza (HATCH) ARY, of Ohio. Dr. COLLIE and his wife are members
of the First Congregational Church of Beloit. He is a member
of the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity. He has published a
number of geological papers, and is a Fellow of the Geological
Society, of America. Politically the Doctor is a Republican.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, pp. 160-161.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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