Dr. John T. Collier
Contributed by Karen Mitchell and Jean Griesan. Photo by Floyd Kelling.
Dr. John T. Collier 1826 – 1895
A native of Missouri, Collier moved to California and Nevada in 1864 where he was successful in the cattle business. He also practiced medicine in Austin, Nevada. Dr. Collier came to the Pueblo area in 1872, devoted his interests to real estate and sheep ranching and was regarded as wealthy. While living on the Doyle Ranch in 1876 he lost about 1500 sheep and several racks of new-shorn wool in a flash flood. He purchased some of the Fort Reynolds land in 1881. Dr. Collier was a Pueblo city alderman in 1888. His second wife, Cassandra Ann, born in 1835, died in 1890. Her monument was made from Cotopaxi gray granite at Piper Brothers stone yard. Dr. Collier died January 3, 1895 at Syracuse, Kansas, where he had a ranch.
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