Carey, Charles Henry. "History of Oregon." Vol. 3. Chicago-Portland: Pioneer Historical Pub. Co., 1922. p. 146. JOHN A. COLLIER John A. Collier dates his connection with the Oregon bar from May, 1901, and has practiced in Portland continuously since 1909. He was born in Barren county, Kentucky, October 26, 1874, and is a son of Pleasant Pollard and Sarah A. (Sullinger) Collier. The father was born in the Blue Grass state in 1837 and was a soldier of the Civil war, going from Kentucky as a private in 1861 and serving with the Union army for three years. In days of peace he devoted his attention to farming and was also an apiarist. While in Kentucky he married Sarah A. Sullinger and his death occurred in 1909, while his widow survives and makes her home in Portland. John A. Collier was reared on a farm to the age of twenty years and his were the usual experiences and training of the farm bred boy. He attended the country schools, worked in the fields through the summer months and for two years pursued a high school course. Not wishing to follow agricultural pursuits as a life work, he took up the study of law in 1898 and was admitted to the bar in May, 1901, at Pendleton, Oregon. He then practiced there for a year and afterward went to Fossil, Oregon, where he followed his profession for six years. In 1909 he opened a law office in Portland, where he has since remained, and as the years have passed he has steadily advanced in the path of his profession. He was deputy district attorney of the old seventh judicial district of Oregon from 1903 until 1907 and in the latter year was appointed by Governor Chamberlain district attorney for the eleventh Judicial district, occupying that position until June, 1908. From the 1st of January, 1913, until October 1, 1918, he was deputy district attorney for the fourth judicial district and has since concentrated his efforts and energies upon an extensive and increasingly important private practice. He is also a director of the Atterbury Trust Sales Company. On the 31st of December, 1901, in Pendleton, Oregon, Mr. Collier was married to Miss Arta B. Huston and they have become parents of a son, John Russell, who was born in October, 1904. Mr. Collier is a member of the Press Club. Fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen of the World and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. He has exerted considerable influence in local political circles and during the war period rendered service in connection with the questionnaires and the promotion of the bond drives. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in November 2006 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.