Background
Collins, Paul Valorous was born on July 22, 1860 in Camden, Preble Company, Ohio, United States. Son of Samuel and Abigail Jane (Patton) Collins.
Collins, Paul Valorous was born on July 22, 1860 in Camden, Preble Company, Ohio, United States. Son of Samuel and Abigail Jane (Patton) Collins.
Student University of Minnesota, University of Toulouse (France). Studied art, Art Students’ League, New York, 1884-1885.
Reporter, Dayton Herald, 1880, Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, 1883. Went to Paris, France, to study art, but became cable correspondent New York Tribune and other American papers. Interviewed DeLesseps when he returned from Panama inspection, and Pasteur when he first announced successful treatment of hydrophobia.
Editor and proprietor Saint Peter (Minnesota) Tribune, 1887-1890.
Principal owner Northwestern Agriculturist, Minneapolis, 1893-1915. Progressive Republican nominee for government of Minnesota, 1912.
Then manager Paul V. Collins International Newspaper Syndicate, Washington and London. Magazine and newspaper writer
Interviewed Benito Mussolini for Outlook Magazine, 1927.
Enlisted in Quartermaster Corps. (volunteer), United States of America, April 1917. In service with American Expeditionary Forces 2 years.
Participated in Lys defensive and Meuse-Argonne advance.
Captain Quartermaster Corps.
Mason.
Married Mary Graves Rhoads, June 20, 1889.