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FRANK BRUCE COLLINS
Vol. 3, p. 1065

Among the concerns recognized as leaders in the investment field of
Oklahoma is that of The F. B. Collins Investment Company of Oklahoma
City, the president of which is Frank B. Collins. A man of broad and
varied experience in this line of business, he has developed a
reliable and prominent concern which bears a high reputation in
investment circles and has the unqualified confidence of his clients.
Mr. Collins was born at Agency, Wapello County, Iowa, on February 21,
1859, and is the son of Jacob and Arabella (WHITMORE) Collins.

Jacob Collins was born August 9, 1820 at Zanesville, Muskingum
County, Ohio, and Mrs. Arabella (Whitmore) Collins, February 2, 1826,
at Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, and both moved with their parents
to Iowa in 1845, where they were married in 1846, and settled upon a
farm in Wapello County. When Frank B. Collins was two years of age
the family moved to Jefferson County, Iowa, where they resided on a
farm six miles west of Fairfield until 1880. There the youth had the
advantage of a common school education and later was graduated from
the Oregon State University. Immediately after the completion of his
educational training, Mr. Collins engaged in the mortgage and loan
business at Summerville, Union County, Oregon, and remained so
engaged there until 1894 when he moved to Pittsburg, Crawford County,
Kansas, and there in 1901 organized the Pittsburg Mortgage &
Investment Company and served as its president and manager until
disposing of his business in September, 1907, to come to Oklahoma
City.

Soon after coming to Oklahoma City, Mr. Collins organized The F. B.
Collins Investment Company, which has grown into one of the really
big farm loan companies of the state, extending its business
throughout practically every county in Oklahoma and also loans on
improved farm lands in the states of Kansas, Arkansas and Texas. Mr.
Collins' experience as a loan man before locating in Oklahoma gave
him the advantage of being able to at once organize his business on
an extensive plane and he has drawn to his assistance some of the
most experienced credit men of the Middle West and interested them in
his enterprise.

At Mulberry, Kansas, November 1, 1886, Mr. Collins was married to
Miss Mollie K. WILSON, daughter of Levi B. and Nannie (GUTHRIE)
Wilson, natives of Kentucky. To this union there have been born two
children: Frank L., born October 28, 1887, now a member of the
company of which his father is president, and is located in charge of
the loan company's business at Guymon, Oklahoma. Nan A., born
December 29, 1889, who is the wife of Dr. Virgil MORRISON, a
physician of Atchison, Kansas and the mother of one daughter, Nancy
Jane Morrison, born October 21, 1910. Mrs. Mollie K. Collins died
November 8, 1908, and Mr. Collins was married a second time at New
London, Connecticut, April 30, 1910, to Miss Nellie SMITH WILLIAMS,
daughter of Leonard N. and Nancy E. (SMITH) Williams, both natives of
Connecticut. One daughter has been born to this union, Sidney Clyde,
born June 22, 1913. Mrs. Collins is a member of the Baptist Church.
Mr. Collins is a Master Mason and a member of the Elks Lodge, his
membership in the latter lodge being still at Pittsburg, Kansas,
Lodge No. 412.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Sherry Van Scoy Hall, November 1, 1998.