Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Collins, Jr., Richard H. 1906 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 603
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     RICHARD H. COLLINS, JR., of Collins Brothers, of Portland, dealers in
Cadillac automobiles, is a man of progressive spirit and sound business judgment
and he and his brothers are achieving success in the sale of this well known
car. Mr. Collins was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1906, and is a son of
Richard H. and Emma D. Collins, who now reside in Pasadena, California, and
Chicago, Illinois. In his early life the father was a cowboy in Kansas, but
deserted that for a job with the John Deere Plow Company. He was a faithful and
efficient employee and eventually, through various promotions, became the
general manager of that company. Later he became associated with Charles Nash,
W. P. Chrysler and W. C. Durant in the automobile business. Eventually he became
general sales manager of the Buick interests, which relation he sustained for
fifteen years. He served two years as vice president of the General Motors
Corporation, after which he was president and general manager of the Cadillac
Motor Car Company for about ten years. He then bought the controlling interest
in the Peerless Motor Car Company, of which he was president and general manager
for three and a half years, after which he became the largest distributor of
Chrysler cars in the United States, having his headquarters in Chicago. He is
still very heavily interested in General Motors.

     Richard H. Collins, Jr., received his early education in the public schools
of Detroit, Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio, after which he took a four-year
preparatory course. He then became associated with his father, under whom he
learned every detail of the automobile business. He has a personal acquaintance
with all of the big automobile men of the country, as well as the leading
automobile engineers. In 1927 he and his brothers, Jack H. and Wilbur H.,
organized the firm of Collins Brothers, of which Wilbur H. is president and
Richard H., Jr. is vice president, Jack H. being too young to hold office. The
company is distributor for the Cadillac, La Salle, Oakland and Pontiac cars for
the state of Oregon and is building up a fine sales organization and handling a
steadily increasing number of cars. Mr. Collins, Jr., is devoting himself
tirelessly to the interests of the business, which is conducted at Twenty-first
and Washington streets, and in which from sixty-five to seventy people are
employed. Mr. Collins, Sr., has recently remodeled and rearranged the display
room and the shop room, simplifying the arrangements and facilities,
particularly of the shop department. He is a member of the Annandale Golf Club
of Pasadena and the Pasadena Athletic Club, the Multnomah Athletic Club of
Portland, which he considers one of the finest in the United States, and other
local organizations. A man of quiet and unassuming manner, he is constant and
dependable as a citizen, judicious and discriminating in business affairs and
throughout the range of his acquaintance commands uniform respect and esteem.

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