Tom Collins

Joseph Furphy was born on 26 September 1843 at Yering, in the Yarra valley, the son of a farmer who had come from Northern Ireland. After unlucky years of farming, he became a bullock driver in the Riverina, until the drought of 1883 ruined his team. He then joined his brother's foundry at Shepparton, sent pieces to the Bulletin under the name Warrigal Jack, then wrote under that of Tom Collins. In 1904 he joined his children in Western Australia, where he died on 13 September 1912, at Claremont.

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• NovelSuch Is LifeTom Collins · 1903LiteraturePublic domain