100 Years of Alaska's Legislature
"From Territorial Days to Today"


1913 to 2013

Juneau, Alaska

State & Territorial



Earnest Collins

OCCUPATION:Miner, Lawyer from Fox

BIRTH DATE/PLACE:07/19/1873; Farmland, Indiana

EDUCATION:College/University: Chico State Normal School, California, graduate, 1896
Technical/Vocational: Studied Law in Attorney's Office, Chico, California, 1896-1904 *Admitted, Alaska Bar, 1915

SPOUSE:Mrs. Jenny Tilleson Larson

CHILDREN:Margaret Henshaw

EMPLOYMENT:Gold Miner, Fairbanks Area;
Special Assistant, US Attorney, Fairbanks;
Attorney, Private Law Practice, Fairbanks;
Mayor, Fairbanks

SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS:Member, Elks; Member, Masons; Member, Rotary; Member, Alaska-Yukon Pioneers; Grand President/Member, Pioneers

OTHER:Delegate, Alaska Constitutional Convention