Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Collins, George Miles May 16, 1889 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, published by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

GEORGE MILES COLLINS, Engineer. George M. Collins, superintendent of the land 
department of the Bernice P. Bishop Estate, the foundation of the Kamehameha 
Schools, has been engaged in engineering work in Hawaii for more than ten 
years.
  His first employment in the Territory was on the Waiahole tunnel system, a 
large engineering project undertaken in connection with the irrigation system 
of the Oahu Sugar Co., and on which he was engaged under H. K. Bishop.
  In January, 1914, Mr. Collins was appointed assistant city and county 
engineer of Honolulu and two years later he was made chief of that department, 
remaining in office until October, 1917, when he joined the engineering staff 
of the Bishop Estate.
  Mr. Collins was born at Los Gatos, California, May 16, 1889, the son of 
Oliver and Sophie C. (Lyon) Collins. He was educated in the grammar and high 
schools of Los Gatos and received a B.S. degree at the University of 
California in 1911, after completing his course in the College of Mines.
  Beginning his professional career as an engineer in 1911, he was associated 
with the Utah Copper Co., at Garfield, Utah, from June until September of that 
year, and was then connected with the American Smelting & Refining Co. until 
he came to Hawaii.
  He was a member of a commission of three appointed by the Board of 
Supervisors to make plans for the Kalihi and Waikiki sewer systems, which were 
completed in 1924, serving on this commission with Arthur R. Keller and S. W. 
Tay. Mr. Collins married Miss Geraldine Frances Neumann of San Francisco at 
Salt Lake City, Oct. 17, 1912. They have one son, George Francis Collins, born 
in San Francisco, Feb. 14, 1921.


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