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out of his isolation and put him in contact with the
forces which are active around him in upbuilding the
community, improving society and advancing
civilization.
The history of the Swedish engineer in the United
States and the part he has taken in this country’s
industrial development is as yet very incomplete. To this,
no doubt, we all agree, and many of us, I am sure, at
one time or another have come in contact with
Swedish-American engineers from the ’60s or ’70s or with men
who knew them intimately, in 1889 I came to Altoona,
Pennsylvania, where shortly before a Swedish engineer
had died. His name was John Bernhard Collin. This
man had the distinction of being the first mechanical
engineer in the motive power department of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and as that road at that time was
more of a leader in the railroad world, perhaps, than
at present, the innovation was original; but it was soon
copied by other large systems.
Perhaps there is somewhere a fuller biography of
this, in many respects, remarkable man, but I doubt it,
so I subjoin the following biographical notes:
John Bernhard Collin was born in Malmö, Sweden,
September 26, 1828 or 1831. He was the son of
Martin E. Collin and Charlotte Sofia Olin. His father was
rector of a boys’ school in Malmö, or, according to
another statement, teacher of Latin and Greek at one of
the Swedish universities. The year after the birth of
this son he became minister in the parish of Glimåkra,
where he resided until his death in 1863.
Young Collin was prepared for college by his father
and graduated from the University of Lund in 1848.
During the years of 1849 and 1850 young Collin was
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