Son of Hiram & Mary Collins
COLLINS, GREENLEAF W. (1837-1906) Hotel operator. Bought Mabie's winter quarters' hotel, Delavan, WI. Later had the Delavan House, an establishment patronized by circus people. When the Centennial Circus went bankrupt in mid-season, 1876, he made arrangements to lease the menagerie for the remainder of the year and took it out under G. W. Collins & Co.'s Museum and Circus, moving chiefly in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana.
SOURCE: "Olympians of the Sawdust Circle - A biographical dictionary of the ninteenth century American circus.", Compiled and Edited by: William L. Slout.
Source [link]: http://www.circushistory.org/Olympians/OlypiansA.htm
COLLINS, GREENLEAF W. (1837-1906) Hotel operator. Bought Mabie's winter quarters' hotel, Delavan, WI. Later had the Delavan House, an establishment patronized by circus people. When the Centennial Circus went bankrupt in mid-season, 1876, he made arrangements to lease the menagerie for the remainder of the year and took it out under G. W. Collins & Co.'s Museum and Circus, moving chiefly in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana.
SOURCE: "Olympians of the Sawdust Circle - A biographical dictionary of the ninteenth century American circus.", Compiled and Edited by: William L. Slout.
Source [link]: http://www.circushistory.org/Olympians/OlypiansA.htm
Son of Hiram & Mary Collins
COLLINS, GREENLEAF W. (1837-1906) Hotel operator. Bought Mabie's winter quarters' hotel, Delavan, WI. Later had the Delavan House, an establishment patronized by circus people. When the Centennial Circus went bankrupt in mid-season, 1876, he made arrangements to lease the menagerie for the remainder of the year and took it out under G. W. Collins & Co.'s Museum and Circus, moving chiefly in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana.
SOURCE: "Olympians of the Sawdust Circle - A biographical dictionary of the ninteenth century American circus.", Compiled and Edited by: William L. Slout.
Source [link]: http://www.circushistory.org/Olympians/OlypiansA.htm
COLLINS, GREENLEAF W. (1837-1906) Hotel operator. Bought Mabie's winter quarters' hotel, Delavan, WI. Later had the Delavan House, an establishment patronized by circus people. When the Centennial Circus went bankrupt in mid-season, 1876, he made arrangements to lease the menagerie for the remainder of the year and took it out under G. W. Collins & Co.'s Museum and Circus, moving chiefly in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana.
SOURCE: "Olympians of the Sawdust Circle - A biographical dictionary of the ninteenth century American circus.", Compiled and Edited by: William L. Slout.
Source [link]: http://www.circushistory.org/Olympians/OlypiansA.htm
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