Under his plans and direct supervision as Chief Engineer, were 

 constructed the New Brunswick Railway 'of Canada and tlie J'.iiro- 

 pean and North American Railroad in Maine, whieli was dedicated 

 for operation by President Grant. 



During the last eleven years of his professional life he was Prin- 

 cipal Assistant Engineer of Docks in New York City. 



By reason of failing health he abandoned his career of Civil 

 Engineer and coming to Los Angeles in 1898, he made his perma- 

 nent home in Redlands. 



Although of the most reserved and modest character his eminent 

 abilities rapidly became known throughout his new environment. 

 He was chosen a member of the first Highway Commission of San 

 Bernardino County and during many j^ears he was frequently con- 

 sulted in the construction of mountain trails and roads, irrigation 

 systems, bridges and other works of a public character, by the au- 

 thorities of San Bernardino Covmty. 



He was retained by successive elections up to his death as Trus- 

 tee of the Smiley Public Library. He was the mainstay of the 

 Fortnightly Club and to him the Unitarian Congregation of Red- 

 lands owes a most exquisite church structure. 



In other phases of his life he was a member of the American 

 Society of Civil Engineers, the Mayflower Society, the Societies of 

 Colonial Governors, Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution. War of 

 1812, the Harvard Club of Southern California and many other 

 clubs and associations of a literary and social character. 



He was intensely interested in the Public Schools and a 

 proper course of instruction for the young and he was a factor in 

 the establishing of a College in Redlands. 



In the early days of the Southern California Academy of Sci- 

 ences, he became a member, and in him we had an associate whose 

 zeal and interest in our work never lessened. 



He was an intense student in Archaeology, Geology, Astronomy 

 and Ethnology, and his library contained many rare — ancient and 

 modern — volumes devoted to these branches of Science, and prob- 

 ably his book shelves embraced a more ample and thorough collec- 

 tion of reliable authority relating to the genealogy and biography 

 of New England than is to be found in any private library in 

 California. 



This Academy of Sciences places this Memorial upon its Rec- 

 ords as a Testimonial of a member who honored us by his associa- 

 tion, a scientist of profound erudition, a gentleman whose amiable 

 character had drawn to him the afi'ection of all who knew him 

 and whose reputation for ability and achievement became National. 



HoLDRiDGE O. Collins. 



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