E.T. Collings
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913

During his residence of fifteen years in Arizona, E.T. 
Collings has become well known in both agricultural and 
commercial circles.  During the early period of his 
residence in this state he owned and conducted a fruit 
and alfalfa ranch and in later years has been at the head 
of the Collings Vehicle and Harness Company.  He is also 
widely known because of his inventive genius which has 
given to the public a valuable farm implement.  His life 
history had its beginning in Indiana in 1866.  The years 
of his boyhood and youth were there passed and his public 
school education was supplemented by a year's study in a 
university.  He then entered the business circles in his 
native sate in which he remained until he reached the age 
of thirty five years, when the opportunities of the southwest 
lured him to this section and he arrived in Arizona in 1901.  
He purchased an orange grove and one hundred and sixty acres 
of land and planted alfalfa.  He bent every energy toward the 
benefit of his ranch but at length returned to commercial 
pursuits, selling his acreage property and taking up his 
abode in phoenix, where he established a vehicle and 
implement business under the name of Collings Vehicle and 
Harness Company, dealing not only in vehicles but also in 
farm machinery.  His stock includes vehicles and machinery 
of standard makes and he has himself invented and patented 
an alfalfa cultivator that is meeting with a big sale, his 
patent being taken out on the 11th of September 1912.  In 
putting this machine upon the market he met a want in 
alfalfa cultivation for his own experience had taught 
him the need of such a farm implement.  Mr. Collings 
is widely conversant with conditions in the southwest 
bearing upon its development and the utilization of its 
natural resources and has faith in the future of the 
state.  He has served as director of the Board of Trade 
in phoenix and as president of the Phoenix high school.

In 1886 Mr. Collings was united in marriage to Miss Pauline 
Woodward and to them have been born a son and daughter: 
Paul E., now twenty two years and Mary Josephine seventeen 
years old.



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