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Josiah Collins (Washington fire chief)
Josiah Collins V (1864-1949) was an American 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. Biography Josiah Collins was born in Hillsborough, North Carolina on June 17, 1864. He moved to Washington in 1883, where he became a lawyer.[1] He was chief of the volunteer fire department at the time of the Great Seattle Fire in 1889.[2] He was one of the cofounders of the first golf clubs in Seattle at Laurelhurst in 1895.[3] Initially a Democrat, he joined the Republican Party in 1896.[1] He served as a member of the Washington State Senate from 1911 to 1915.[2] He married Caroline Wetherill in June 1907, and they had two sons.[1][2] He died in Seattle on July 1, 1949.[2] References
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