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Josiah Collins (Washington fire chief)

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Josiah Collins's fire chief hat on display at MOHAI

Josiah Collins (1864-1949) was a Seattle 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.

He was one of the cofounders of the first golf club in Seattle at Laurelhurst in 1895.

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