Physician
Centurion, 1910–1953
Born 5 December 1859 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 23 February 1953 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Saint Marys Episcopal Churchyard
, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Proposed by Samuel W. Lambert and Edwin D. Worcester
Elected 5 November 1910 at age fifty
Century Memorial
Dr. Charles F. Collins was the son of a sea captain who sailed his own ship. When Charles was eleven years old, he sailed with his father around the Horn to Australia and back again.
Dr. Collins graduated from Yale in 1883 and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1886. He was all his life a practicing physician in the City, and he became particularly interested in pediatrics. He was attending physician at both St. Luke’s and the Lying-in Hospitals. He used to drive himself about the City in an open car, winter and summer, and all the traffic policemen knew him.
He had studied in Vienna, Dresden, and Hanover, and he liked Europe and liked to travel about there—especially in Brittany and Normandy, where he went whenever he could get off. In his middle years he was at the Club a great deal and played with Freeman, Northrup, and the Lamberts [likely Adrian V. S. Lambert, Alexander Lambert, and Samuel W. Lambert]; but they all got away before him, and of late we did not see him any more.
He was a vigorous, ruddy person, direct in his manner and thoroughly civilized and sophisticated. He lived a long time in a rapidly changing world, but, come hell or high water, he was always just the same.
George W. Martin
1954 Century Association Yearbook