California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


ROBERT F. COLLINS. � As rancher, vineyardist and raisin grower, 
Robert F. Collins, has a well-improved vineyard of thirty-eight acres be- 
tween North and Center avenues, twelve and a half miles southeast of Fresno. 
It is a part of the old J. D. Collins ranch. Robert F. Collins is a son of the 
late J. D. Collins and was born at the old J. D. Collins Dry Creek ranch on 
April 10, 1888. He attended the old Mississippi School and later, after moving 
to Fresno when his father was elected sheriff, he attended the Fresno High 
School from which he was graduated in 1908. He ran cattle for his father in 
1909-10 on the Collins' Dry Creek Ranch and then put in a year at the Uni- 
versity of California at Berkeley. 

In January, 1912, Mr. Collins was united in marriage with Miss Eva H. 
Sisson, a native of Michigan who was reared in Modesto and Fresno. She 
is the daughter of F. H. Sisson, manager for the Fresno Agricultural Works 
at Fresno. She is also a graduate of the Fresno High School. 

After his marriage, Mr. Collins began farming and improved the thirty- 
eight-acre tract given to him by his father. He now has a comfortable bunga- 
low residence, barns, drying-sheds, wells and a pumping-plant with a twenty 
horsepower engine. Ten acres of the tract are in Thompsons, fourteen acres 
are in peaches and he raises alfalfa and some grain. The balance is in yards, 
which he plans to plant to Malagas in the spring of 1920. 

Mr. and Mrs. Collins have three children: Robert F., Jr., James Franklin, 
and William White. Mr. Collins is a Democrat, but is not a politician. He is 
a member of the California Associated Raisin Company, and the California 
Peach Growers, Inc.