Statewide County AZ Archives Obituaries.....Collins, George 1904
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Arizona Republican-Jan 3, 1904
GEORGE COLLINS
Arizona Republican Newspaper
January 3, 1904

The funeral of Hon. George U. Collins will take place at 3 
o'clock this afternoon from the undertaking rooms of 
Easterling and Whitney.  The services will be under the 
direction of Phoenix Commander Knights Templar of which 
body Mr. Collins had been a member for years.  Mr. Collins 
was also a member of the B.P.O.E. of Phoenix and that 
organization will attend the funeral in a body.

THE FUNERAL OF GEORGE COLLINS
January 5, 1904

The funeral of George U. Collins was held yesterday afternoon 
at 3 o'clock at the parlors of Easterling and Whitney.  
Altogether it was one of the largest funerals seen here 
for many days, the double line formed by the fraternities 
in open rank, through which passed the cortege, extending 
for the distance of a block.

Mr. Collins was one of the early settlers of this valley 
and was one of the most prosperous ranchers.  He was a 
quiet and unassuming citizen well respected by those 
who knew him and known widely throughout Arizona.  A 
native of Maine, he went first to California coming 
form there to this valley.  He had those sterling qualities 
of thrift and industry which with careful business 
judgment made his life successful in a practical way.  
Acquiring a competence in the early days through 
agriculture and its associate industries, when a 
shortage of water followed the reclamation of an 
expanding acreage in this locality, he was among 
the first to experiment in the matter of developing 
irrigation water by pumping and his experiment was 
well rewarded so that with his canal rights, he had 
the best watered piece of ground in the valley.

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