The wife of the celebrated legal scholar, author, educator, and American diplomat William Miller Collier, Mrs. Collier died at age 83, predeceasing him by three years. Born to Alice Booth Beardsley and Charles Nelson Ross in Auburn, NY, she was 24 years old when she married Collier in 1893, and had played an active role in her husband's professional life throughout their marriage of some 60 years. Although the couple regarded Auburn as their home, they had often resided elsewhere, and Mrs. Collier was in California at the time of her death. In addition to Spain and Chile, where Collier had been appointed US Minister Plenipotentiary and US Ambassador, respectively, they had lived in the Washington, DC, area, where Collier had served as President of George Washington University between diplomatic assignments. The bronze plaque in the Colliers' plot salutes Mrs. Collier's role in his career, stating that "in the toil, the honor, and the duties" of all her husband's positions, "his wife, Frances, nobly bore her share."
The wife of the celebrated legal scholar, author, educator, and American diplomat William Miller Collier, Mrs. Collier died at age 83, predeceasing him by three years. Born to Alice Booth Beardsley and Charles Nelson Ross in Auburn, NY, she was 24 years old when she married Collier in 1893, and had played an active role in her husband's professional life throughout their marriage of some 60 years. Although the couple regarded Auburn as their home, they had often resided elsewhere, and Mrs. Collier was in California at the time of her death. In addition to Spain and Chile, where Collier had been appointed US Minister Plenipotentiary and US Ambassador, respectively, they had lived in the Washington, DC, area, where Collier had served as President of George Washington University between diplomatic assignments. The bronze plaque in the Colliers' plot salutes Mrs. Collier's role in his career, stating that "in the toil, the honor, and the duties" of all her husband's positions, "his wife, Frances, nobly bore her share."
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