My Mitchell Collins came from Northern Ireland at age 17 in Oct 1859. He landed in NY and then worked in the Pittsburg oil fields. From there he went to Clinton, Clinton Co. IA, where he married Anna Gravenor in 1871. By 1880, he moved to a little village of Waltham, in North Tama Co. IA, in the Center of Iowa, where other Irish families settled that had come from Co. Antrim. I am assuming Mitchell knew some one in Waltham, and he most probably is form Antrim as well. These are the other families: John wilson, b. 1836 Co Antrim Matilda Patterson b. 1836, Ballyconelly, Co Antrim James Williamson b. 1837, Co Antrim Esther Patterson b. 1846, Ballyconelly, Co Antrim Bonnie Grimmius