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A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and its People, Vol. III
by Alvah L. Sawyer
Lewis Pub. Co., Chicago - 1911

        [1251-1252]

        G. SHERMAN COLLINS is vice-president and cashier of the First
      National Bank of Alger county, at Munising, in which attractive and
      thriving city, claiming one of the finest harbors on Lake Superior,
      he is known as a loyal and public-spirited citizen and as an essen-
      tially representative business man, bringing to bear vital energy and
      progressive ideas of the typical American business man of the younger
      generation.
        MR. COLLINS adverts with a due measure of satisfaction to the fact
      that he can claim the fine old state of Michigan as the place of his
      nativity. He was born in the city of Manistee on the 19th of June,
      1877, and is a son of THOMAS B. and FRANCES (BURR) COLLINS, the
      former of whom was born in the city of Buffalo, New York, in 1842,
      and the latter of whom was born in New York City. The father died in
      Manistee, in January, 1905, and there the mother still retains her
      home. THOMAS COLLINS was long and prominently identified with the
      great lumber industry in Michigan and in this connection conducted
      operations at Manistee for fully thirty-five years. He was a stanch
      Democrat in politics and ever showed a loyal interest in public
      affairs, being one of the honored and influential citizens of his
      county. He was identified with the Masonic fraternity and was a
      member of the Presbyterian church.
        G. SHERMAN COLLINS gained his early educational discipline in the
      public schools of his native city, in whose high school he was grad-
      uated as a member of the class of 1894. Thereafter he completed an
      effective course in the Northern Indiana Normal School & Business
      University, at Valparaiso, Indiana, an institution that is now known
      as Valparaiso University. After leaving school he secured employment
      as a stenographer in a law office in Manistee. In 1896 he located at
      Newberry, Luce county, Michigan, and there held the position of
      storekeeper in the Upper Peninsula Hospital for the Insane for two
      years, at the expiration of which, in 1898, he removed to Munising,
      where he became collector and stenographer for the Munising State
      Bank. In this institution he was appointed teller in 1899 and he
      served in this capacity until January, 1901, when he was made
      assistant cashier. In 1905 he was elected cashier of the institution
      and in January, 1908, when the bank was reorganized as the First
      National Bank of Alger County, he became its cashier, an office of
      which he has since remained incumbent, while he has also been vice-
      president of the institution since January, 1910. The First National
      Bank of Alger County is recognized as one of the strong and sub-
      stantial financial institutions of the Upper Peninsula and its
      operations are based upon a capital stock of sixty thousand dollars,
      while its surplus and profits are in excess of eighteen thousand
      dollars, as shown in the official report of its business on the 30th
      of June, 1910. The board of directors is comprised of WILLIAM G.
      MATHER, President of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company; CHARLES V.
      R. TOWNSEND, land agent for the same company; GEORGE J. FORSTER,
      manager of the Forster Brothers Company; MARCUS A. DOTY, vice-
      president of the Superior Veneer & Cooperage Company; and G. SHERMAN
      COLLINS, who is the immediate subject of this sketch.
        In politics MR. COLLINS gives his allegiance to the Republican
      party and he has served as a member of the board of education of
      Munising, as well as a member of the village council, of which posi-
      tion he is a valued incumbent at the present time. He has also served
      as deputy United States Collector of customs at this port since 1903.
      He is affiliated with Grand Island Lodge, No. 422, Free & Accepted
      Masons; and Marquette Chapter, No. 43, Royal Arch Masons.
        On the 1st of July, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of MR.
      COLLINS to MISS ROUIE A. WHITE, who was born in the province of New
      Brunswick, Canada, and who is the daughter of GILBERT N. WHITE, who
      was a prominent lumberman at West Branch, Ogemaw county, Michigan,
      for a period of about ten years, at the expiration of which he re-
      moved to the state of Oregon, whence he later went to Tacoma, Wash-
      ington, in which city he now maintains his home. MR. and MRS. COLLINS
      have one son, BURR WHITE COLLINS, and a daughter, PRISCILLA.

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