Third Son of Gilman and Maria E. (Hoffman) Collamore, George Collamore was born April 1, 1818, married Julia A. LaFarrelle, Dec. 25, 1845 and died Aug. 21, 1863 in Lawrence, Kansas. Margaret Fuller, his daughter, married Joshua T. Butler, at Somerville, Massachusetts in 1885.

Mr. Collamore studied law, and was admitted to the Suffolk County Bar in Nov. 27, 1852. He became a partner of John A. Andrew (later Governor of Massachusetts).

Mr. Collamore was a Democrat and Mr. Andrew was a Republican. In an attempt to visit Kansas in 1855, Mr. Collamore was met on a steamboat by some men from Missouri who made a republican out of him in five minutes. He returned East and the next year took his family, settled in Lawrence, Kansas, and was afterwards an active anti-slavery man.

He was on the Board of Regents of the State Agricultural College in 1863. Serving as Quartermaster-General in 1861, he was very active in securing military protection for the State. The U.S. Government had withdrawn the protection of its troops from the vicinity of the City of Lawrence, thinking their presence unnecessary. Quantrill’s band of raiders attacked Lawrence at daybreak, Aug. 21, 1863. They killed at least 143 persons and burned many buildings. As mayor of the city, Collamore had worked many hours without rest. He came home early in the morning, leaving firearms at the office and went immediately to bed. He was asleep when his house was surrounded. His dwelling in the western part of the city was almost the first to be visited as the band wished to make him a prisoner.

The raiders met Mrs. Collamore at the door, disliked her answers to questions asked, slapped her face, and entered the house. Finding son Peter in bed, they threw him out the window and set fire to the house. Mr. Collamore, with the neighbor, entered a well under the ell of the house, hoping to find security from the band. After the raider’s departure, the cover of the well was removed. No answer came to the calls made to the two, so another neighbor descended the well and was killed by the gases, as Gen. Collamore and his companion had been.

George Collamore was a descendant of the sixth generation from Anthony Collamore of Scituate, Massachusetts, whose grandfather, Peter, was an immigrant to Scituate from England.

Enoch Collamore, the fourth generation from Anthony, born June 27. 1745, was on the Lexington Alarm, April 19th 1775, as a sergeant; marched as a minute man, and from 1777 to the end of the War was one of the committee of Correspondence, Inspection, and Safety. He was also a captain in the Scituate Militia.

(Excerpts taken from the Genealogy of the Descendant of Anthony Collamore).