The following notes from La Follette-Farr-Simpson-Collier database on RootsWeb contributed by Stephen Morgan La Follette.
George Haskell Collier was born 5 Mar 1827 at Minoa, New York. He was the son of George Collier (b. 31 Oct 1793 at Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire, Scotland; d. 11 Apr 1854 Findley Lake, Chautaugua county, New York) and Susan Warner Haskell (b. 13 Jun 1802 in Oakam, Mass.; d. 19 Aug 1890 in Denver, Colorado) George and Susan were married 4 Mar 1822 in Minoa, New York. George started to study for the ministry, but went into science instead. He was a professor at Wheaton College in Illinois. From there he was recruited for the original faculty at the Pacific University in Oregon.
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George Collier (1827-1916) joined the UO faculty in 1879, as a professor of physics and chemistry. His genial and dignified manner endeared him to all and served as his authority in the classroom, recalled former student Frederic Dunn in 1934. "There was no thought of correction or disciplinary measure where Dr. Collier taught, for his very modesty and wholesome absence of egotism would have made a student misdemeanor seem like crime against divinity."Collier and his wife, Sybel Augusta Smith (married Dec 19, 1853 in Orberlin, Ohio), had seven children who survived to adulthood (Hattie Lulu, Charles M, Robert Orville, Arthur James, David R, George and Mary H Collier), and in 1885 began building a large house at the corner of 13th and University streets. They moved in the following year, and it served as their home until Collier left the UO faculty in 1895. The university bought the house in 1896, intending to make it a women's dormitory. But that plan was quickly abandoned, and the house became the home of UO presidents from 1899 to 1941, and later the Faculty Club. Today it is a Eugene landmark, operating as a restaurant open to the general public.
A nineteenth-century educator, Collier was forced to retire early when the young and progressive president, C.H. Chapman, restructured the UO curriculum to attract faculty with more modern training. But although the physics professor's background may have been somewhat dated, his outlook was to the future. When discussing the theory of sound vibrations one day in the early 1880s, Collier was asked by a student if he thought telegraphic messages would ever be sent without the use of wires. "No question of it," the professor replied. "I may not live to see it, but the rest of you will." He was half right. The first successful wireless messages were sent in 1895, twenty-one years before Collier died. Eugene Masonic Cemetery Org
_____Collier Glacier in Oregon is named after him. Collier State Park in Oregon also bears the family's name.
Sibyl Smith Collier was a botanist and planted and tended a great many trees around the University of Oregon and their own home, which is now restored as a Historical House.
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Find-a-Grave notesAttorney at Law, Allyn Collier was admitted to the practice of law in Central City Colorado before the age of 21. He was a Clerk in the District court of Gilpin county, Colorado. Later he was an Attorney at Law in San Diego, California.
Allyn Collier's family came to Central City Colorado in December 1868, and they came to San Diego in 1884. Allyn never married.
Julius and Mariam Brooks moved from Iowa to California in the spring of 1854. (Personal family notes from Marianne Rigdon)
The Oregonian
March 2, 1943Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Goddard Marsh who died Saturday at her residence, 602 S.E. 16th avenue, will be held Tuesday at 2:30 P.M. at Finley's mortuary, Dr. W. D. Elliot, minister emeritus of the Unitarian church, will conduct the service. Interment in Riverview cemetery will follow.
Born in Monroe, Wis., and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. Mrs. Marsh moved to Portland in 1892 and for 12 years taught at the Couch and old Portland high school. On July 20, 1904 she was married to George Haskell Marsh, clerk of the United States district court, who survives her.
Mrs. Marsh was active in the Portland Art Study class, the American association of University women, the professional women's league, the Pacific University guild, the Portland Garden club and the Delta Gamma sorority.
Besides the widower she is survived by two nieces, Elizabeth Goddard of Portland and Mrs. Horace B. Fenton, Eugene.