Harrie R. Collins is successfully engaged in the general practice of law in Los Angeles, with offices at 411 West Seventh Street. He was born in Keokuk, Iowa, September 30, 1878, his parents being Williamson B. C. and Caroline Elliott (Copelin) Collins, natives of Indiana and Missouri, respectively. W. B. C. Collins was a prominent lawyer of Keokuk, Iowa, from 1864 until 1923, a period covering nearly six decades, and at one time served as city attorney. In 1923 he came to California, living retired on the Pacific coast until the time of his death, which occurred July 5, 1932, when he had attained the advanced age of ninety-one years. He served in the Civil War, as a major of the Union Army, in the Seventh Missouri Infantry. To him and his wife, who resides in Los Angeles, were born seven children, four of whom survive.

Harrie R. Collins attended the grade and high schools of his native city in the acquirement of an education and received his professional training at Drake University of Des Moines, Iowa, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1899. He was admitted to the Iowa bar on the 4th of October, 1899, and subsequently attended the University of Chicago for seven months. On the 5th of October, 1899, he began the work of his chosen profession in Keokuk, Iowa, in association with his father and thus continued in law practice until September 20, 1917, when he entered the service of his country. For two years thereafter he was engaged at Camp Logan, at Ellington Field and in shipyard work, being honorably discharged in September, 1919. He was next engaged in title work with the Louisiana Abstract & Title Guaranty Company of New Orleans at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, until coming to Los Angeles in the spring of 1920 and here was associated with the California Title Guaranty Company, later known as the California Title Insurance Company, until July 1, 1925. Throughout the intervening period of eight years he has engaged in law practice independently, having been admitted to the California bar in March, 1923. An excellent presence, an earnest, dignified manner, marked strength of character, a thorough grasp of the law and the ability accurately to apply its principles are factors in his effectiveness as an advocate.

On the 6th of April, 1904, Mr. Collins was united in marriage to Miss Elsie Parsons, a native of Burlington, Iowa, and to them has been born five children, as follows: Harrie R. (II), a graduate of the University of Redlands, Redlands, California; Mrs. Grace McCulloch; Milton Parsons; Copp Parsons; and Elsie Agnes. Mr. Collins gives his political allegiance to the Republican Party and fraternally is affiliated with the Masonic bodies, being a worthy exemplar of the teachings and purposes of the craft.