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Legislature, winning his first election in 1968. Ed was an active and devoted member of the Albany County and Town of Colonie
Republican Party. He served as a Town District Leader and was a member of the Town Republican Club. He was also involved in
civic groups which included the Colonie Senior Citizens, the Colonie Youth Center and Latham Boy Scout Troop No. 66. Ed was a
lifelong member of the Niskayuna Reformed Church where he served on the Consistory. He was a 61 year member of the Evening
Star Lodge No. 75, F&AM in Latham where he served as Lodge Master in 1963 and later served as Lodge Treasurer. Ed’s
favorite hobby was gardening and he enjoyed square dancing and playing cards with his family and friends.
Ed’s family wishes to extend a heartfelt thank you to the staff of the Eddy Memorial Geriatric Center in Troy for the wonderful and
dedicated care given to Ed during his stay. In recognition of their efforts, the family suggests that those wishing to remember Ed in a
special way, make a donation to the Elizabeth Malone Employee Assistance Fund by check payable to the Eddy Memorial Geriatric
Center, 2256 Burdett Avenue, Troy, NY, 12180. Donations may also be made to the Niskayuna Reformed Church, 3041 Troy-
Schenectady Road, Niskayuna, NY, 12309.
The funeral service will be held on Saturday at 10 am in the Niskayuna Reformed Church where the Reverend Dr. Scott A. DeBlock
will officiate. Interment will follow in the Niskayuna Reformed Church Cemetery. Relatives and friends are invited and may also call
at the Bowen & Parker Bros. Funeral Home, 97 Old Loudon Road, Latham on Friday from 4 until 8pm. Brethren of the Evening Star
Lodge # 75 F.&A.M. are requested to meet at the funeral home on Friday at 7:15 pm to conduct funeral services at 7:30 pm for our
departed brother, Edward I. Buhrmaster, Sr.
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Hon. Lorenzo D. Collins, was born in the town of Whitehall, Washington county, 13 Jul 1821. He is of Puritan ancestry and
Revolutionary stock, both grandfathers having served in the Revolutionary war. His father, Daniel Collins, fought in the war of 1813.
Mr. L. D. Collins received a district school education and when nineteen years of age, left his father's farm and located in West Troy,
Albany county, where two years later, he opened a canal barn and grocery and provision store. He was a member of the old Whig
party and when the Republican party was formed in 1856, he became a member and has been very active ever since. Mr. Collins
was trustee of the village of West Troy in 1853 and the next year was chosen village president; in 1859 and 1860, he was a member
of the Assembly and in 1866 was elected State senator. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the committee on canals and in
1867 introduced in the Senate a bill for the erection of the New Capitol building, which he had passed. Every bill he introduced,
while in the Legislature, was passed and became law. In 1865 he was a delegate to the International Convention at Detroit, Mich. In
1895 when the town of Watervliet was divided and the town of Colonie erected, Mr. Collins was chosen the first supervisor and was
reelected in the spring of 1896. He was named by Governor Morton as one of the delegates from New York to the National Farmers'
Congress and Good Roads Parliament, which were held at Atlanta, GA, during the Cotton States and International Exposition in
1895. He is president of the State Farmers' League and chairman of the executive committee of the New York State Farmers'
Congress, both of which were organized largely through his individual efforts. Mr. Collins was a director of the Union National Bank
of Troy, for twenty years, and was for six years captain of the Light Guards, a military company of West Troy, Albany county. He is a
charter member of Evening Star Lodge, No. 75, F&AM, of West Troy.
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LORENZO D. COLLINS.
THIS Senator, for the Thirteenth District, was born in Whitehall, Washington, NY,13 Jul 1821. Both of his grandfathers were in the
Army of the Revolution. His paternal grandfather having been taken prisoner, was carried to England, and there imprisoned until the
close of the war. His father, a resident of Whitehall, served for a short time in the war of 1812; and, being in moderate
circumstances, was able to afford his large family of children no special advantages of education, beyond what could be obtained in
the District School, during a short winter respite from industrial pursuits. Leaving Whitehall at the age of twenty, the subject of this
article removed to West Troy, Albany county, and there hired out to work by the month for a period of two years. At the expiration of
that time, he found that, in addition to the little capital which he had saved from his earnings, he had made a reputation for integrity,
which enabled him to obtain the requisite credit for commencing business on his own account; and accordingly, in 1843, he
commenced the canal store and stabling business in that village; he added to it, in 1850, storage and forwarding.
His business grew in extent, and yielded a handsome return in profit, so that, in 1855, he had not only been able to erect fine
buildings for its accommodation, but had also something to invest in bank stock. The same year, he was elected a Director of the
Union Bank of Troy, a position which he still holds. In order to facilitate his grain business, in which he was heavily interested, he
became an owner of boats to a considerable extent, so that his inter. ests have been constantly and increasingly connected with the
canals of the State.
In 1862, his brother entered into partnership with him. Being thus partially relieved of the immediate care and oversight of his
business, Mr. COLLINS, in the same year, removed to the fine farm upon which he now resides, about one mile north west of the
village. His early experience in farm life, coupled with his naturally good judgment in any pursuit, has enabled him to prove himself a
practical as well as an amateur farmer. As a business man, Senator COLLINS has been abundantly successful. Beginning life as he
did, he may take a justifiable pride in saying, that his note never went to protest, nor was there ever a time, in his business
experience, when he could not pay every dollar that he owed.
Being a man of deep convictions and positive opinions, Senator COLLINS early became known as an ardent and leading supporter of
the principles enunciated by the old Whig party; and when that party ceased to exist, he engaged with equal zeal in the support of
Republican principles, and soon became known in his village as an influential party man. Although residing in a strong Democratic
Ward, in 1852, he was elected one of the Trustees of the village. He discharged his duties so acceptably, that, in the following year,
he was chosen President of the Board. In 1858, the Republicans of the Fourth Assembly District of Albany county, fixed upon him as
the man who could probably overcome the strongly adverse majority in the district. He accepted the nomination, and was
triumphantly elected. In the succeeding year he was again elected. In the House, he was a member of the Canal Committee for two
years; but, upon receiving a renomination for a third term, his business interests compelled him to decline. In 1865, he was elected
State Senator, which result, together with the election of the balance of the Republican ticket in the county constituting the
Senatorial District, may be attributed, in a great measure, to positive strength in the nomination. Mr. COLLINS, while never seeking
show or prominence before the public, is, in respect to practical ideas touching the material interests of the State, one of the able
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