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George R. Collins was
born in Troy, New York. On the paternal side he is descended
from six of the original Puritans, and the genealogical record on both
sides traces back to the foundations of England and Holland. The
paternal ancestor who came to America was Lieutenant Benjamin Collins,
who located in Salisbury, Mass, in 1628, and from whom George R. is a
descendant in the ninth generation. The other five original
Puritans whose descendants married into the Collins family were the
first Hugh Mosher, the first Samuel Hubbard, the first John Greenman,
the first Joseph Clark, and the first Richard Maxon.
George R. Collins was educated in the public
schools of Troy, and was graduated from the troy Military
Academy. After a business career in the East, he came to Kansas
City in 1887. He was book-keeper and afterwards credit man for
the old firm of G. Y. Smith, and later cashier of the Westport Bank,
and then the German Savings Bank of this city. In 1892 he formed
a partnership in the financial and fire insurance business, and in
1895 assumed the management of the National Benevolent Society.
He was married July 2, 1900, to Miss Blanche
Hastings.
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