Born: January 21, 1819
Died: August 23, 1893
Married: Eliza Ann McCollom (born October 12, 1819-died March 29, 1892)
Children: Charles (1844-1861), Joseph (1848-1862), Eliza Ann (1851-52), Amiel (1851-1861), Freelove Orphena (1853-1861)
Amiel C. McCollom was a farmer, a guide, and a hotel-keeper, who settled in what would become the hamlet of McColloms in 1849 in a cabin built earlier by Amos Rice. McCollom was a Scottsman who was noted for his ability as a dog-handler, an important skill for guides in the days when deer hunting with dogs was the norm. Amiel, his wife Eliza Ann and their five children are buried in McColloms Cemetery.
Plattsburgh Sentinel, September 29, 1890
ADIRONDACK PIONEERS.
[Taken by permission from John H. Titus's interesting pamphlet on noted Adirondack men.]
A. C. McCOLLOM.
A. C. McCollom, who for years has been known as "Uncle Mac," was born in 1819. For a year or two before the Ogdensburg railroad" was finished, which was in 1849, he worked for some of the contractors, and that year he moved to what was then called "the burnt land," as it had been burned out for miles and miles, but now McColloms. He soon farmed it to quite an extent, and hunted and trapped a good deal, and it became a noted place to get nice fish and venison meals and good fishing and hunting. Everybody that knew him liked to get to "Uncle Mac's," though for many years it was quite a hard job to get there. He died in 1893, his wife dying a few years previously.
See Adirondack Daily Enterprise, November 9, 2021, History shows the impact of vaccines, by Kirk Peterson
