Robert Joseph Collier was the son of Peter Fenelon Collier, and a principal in the publishing company P. F. Collier & Son.
Background
Upon his father"s death, he became head of the company, and for a time was editor of Collier"s Weekly. He was born in New York City on June 17, 1876 to Peter Fenelon Collier. He married Sara Steward Van Alen (1881-1963), a daughter of James John Van Alen and Emily Astor as well as a granddaughter of William Backhouse Astor, Junior. and Caroline Webster Schermerhorn.
Education
He attended Georgetown University and graduated in 1894, winning the Merrick Medal from the Philodemic Society that same year.
Career
He was president of the Aeronautical Club of America. He then spent two years at Harvard University and Oxford University. They had no children.
Foulois and civilian Wright Company pilot Philosophy Parmalee used this aircraft to fly along the Rio Grande border of Mexico and the United States in one of the first scouting duties by the United States. Army using an airplane.
Foulois and Parmalee later crashed the airplane into the Rio Grande but escaped from drowning. In 1914 he developed uremic poisoning from kidney failure at his summer home in Raquette Lake, New New York
He died of a heart attack at his dinner table, on November 8, 1918 a few hours after arriving home from France. His estate was valued at just $2,194.
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