Margaret Wootten Collier

Margaret Wootten Collier
Born	Margaret Wootten December 9, 1869 Walker County, Georgia, U.S.
Died	January 6, 1947 Atlanta, Georgia
Pen name	Mrs. Bryan Wells Collier
Occupation	Writer
Alma mater	LaGrange Female College
Genre	Biographies
Subject	Southern United States
Literary movement	Southern Renaissance
Notable works	Representative Women of the South
Spouse	Bryan Wells Collier ​ ​ (m. 1897; died 1937)​
Children	2

Margaret Wootten Collier (née, Wootten; pen name, Mrs. Bryan Wells Collier; December 9, 1869 – January 6, 1947) was an American writer of the Southern Renaissance era. She was the author of the seven volume Representative Women of the South, 1861-1925 (1920, 1923, 1925),[1][2] and was the official biographer of the Confederated Southern Memorial Association.[3]

Early life and education

Margaret Marion Wootten was born in Walker County, Georgia,[4] December 9, 1869. She was the youngest daughter of John Fletcher Wootten, M. D., of Wilkes County, Georgia, and Margaret Marion (Hendrix) Wootten.[1] Collier was one of four sisters, three of whom married ministers.[5]

Collier graduated from Dalton Female Academy and LaGrange Female College. She did special study of music under Professor Henry Schoeller and Alfredo Barili.[1]

Career

Biographies of representative women of the South

Collier was the author of the poem, "In My Garden of Love" (1925). She also edited the multi-volume Representative Women of the South, 1861-1920, 1920; Representative Women of the South, 1861-1923, 1923; and Representative Women of the South, 1861-1925, 1925.[1] Every State where there was a Chapter of the two Southern organizations -Memorial Association and Daughters of the Confederacy- was represented in this compilation. Included were pictures and sketches of Children of the Confederacy.[3]

She was a member of the National League of American Pen Women and of the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists;[6] historian of the Atlanta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.; 1923–25); Corresponding Secretary General of Confederated Memorial Association (beginning in 1917); and president of the Robert Lee Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy (College Park, Georgia).[1]

Personal life

On December 9, 1897, she married the Rev. Bryan Wells Collier (1868-1937) of Griffin, Georgia. Their children were Bryan Wootten (born 1899) and Thomas Wootten (born 1902).[1][7]

Margaret Wootten Collier died in Atlanta, Georgia, January 6, 1947, and was buried in Dalton.[2]

Selected works

• Biographies of representative women of the South

See also

• Southern United States literature

References

1. Georgia. Department of Archives and History (1926). "Collier, Mrs. Margaret Wootten (Mrs. Bryan Wells)". Georgia Women of 1926. Georgia Department of Archives and History. p. 23. OCLC 25809880. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
2. "Obit for Margaret Marion Wootten Collier". The Atlanta Constitution. 7 January 1947. p. 14. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
3. "A NOTABLE BOOK". Confederate Veteran. 28 (10). S.A. Cunningham: 394. October 1920. Retrieved 27 December 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
4. Daughters of the American Revolution (1936). "MRS. MARGARET WOOTTEN COLLIER. 147918". Lineage Book. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
5. Graham, Balus Joseph Winzer, ed. (1917). "BRYAN WELLS COLLIER". Baptist Biography, Volume 1. Index printing Company. pp. 79–80. OCLC 3906727. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
6. Daughters of the American Colonists. Georgia Society (1968). Roster of Members, Register of Colonial Ancestors, and History of State Society, April 25, 1921-April, 1968. p. 260. OCLC 78633.
7. "Margaret Marian Wooten". www.familysearch.org. Retrieved 27 December 2022.