Selden Collins

  General notes:

Silversmith and jeweler

  Events in his life were:

• He worked from 1835 to 1849 as a silversmith and jeweler in Utica NY ¹⁵

• He was a partner from 1849 to 1850 with James Murdock in Utica NY as MURDOCK & COLLINS. ¹⁵

• He worked from 1850 to 1880 as a silversmith and jeweler in Utica NY listed in the 1867 city directory at 46 Genesee Street and by 1880, at no. 30.

• Master to Wallace B. Wilcox abt 1867 in Utica NY.

• He appeared on the 1880 census taken at Utica NY, listed as a jeweler.

• Tradecard, c 1880
Private Collection

Selden married Emeline A. Prentice on 22 Apr 1851 in Utica NY. (Emeline A. Prentice was born on 8 Jul 1829 in Turin NY.)