Josiah Collins (Washington)
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Josiah Collins's fire chief hat on display at MOHAI
Josiah Collins (1864-1949) was a Seattle attorney, civil servant and politician who was Seattle Fire Commissioner and a State Senator. He was Seattle's Fire Chief at the time of the Great Seattle Fire on June 6, 1889. On that date, he was in San Francisco, attending a regional conference of Fire Chiefs.
He was one of the cofounders of the first golf club in Seattle at Laurelhurst in 1895.
References
- HistoryLink: Seattle Fire Department
- Seattle PI: Museum displays Seattle Fire Bell
- HistoryLink: Golf arrives in Seattle in 1895
- HistoryLink: Daughter in Law Patsy Bullitt Collins
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