WINFIELD S. COLLINS, lawyer, is the son of Horace W. Collins, a native of Champaign county, Ohio, and Julia E. Sattley, born in Sangamon county, Illinois. Her father, Robert H. Sattley, settled in the county in a very early day. The subject of this sketch was born in Champaign county, Ohio, March 30, 1848. In 1855 his parents moved to Johnson county, Iowa, where he labored on the farm till twenty-one years of age, then set about earning means with which to obtain a more complete education. He taught school twelve terms; took a course in Iowa Agricultural College, from which he was graduated in civil engineering in the class of 1876, with distinguished honors as a draughtsman, having won the prize for the finest piece of mechanical drawing at a State exhibition. In the spring of 1877, Mr. Collins came to Springfield, Illinois, read law with Robert L. McGuire, and was admitted to practice in the courts, in May, 1879. He immediately opened an office in the city, and began the business of his profession. June 1, 1881, he formed a partnership with Martin Sprague, which still continues.