Isaac Jacob Collins (October 27, 1874 – October 22, 1975) was an American businessman who founded the Anchor Hocking Corp. Born in Salisbury, Maryland, as a young man Isaac Collins moved to Lancaster, Ohio to work as a decorator at a pressed glass manufacturing company.
[1] Isaac Collins owned Fairfield Stock Farm near Lancaster from which he raised both Thoroughbred and Standardbred horses.
Among his successful Thoroughbreds were the filly Paradisical whose wins included the 1935 Kentucky Oaks and the Ohio Derby against males, and the colt Vulcan's Forge who won the 1949 the Santa Anita and Suburban Handicaps.
Collins was appointed to the Ohio Racing Commission in 1933[2] and later was named its chairman.
[3] In the 1960s, he was an officer of Balmoral Harness Racing, Inc.[4] Isaac Collins died at his home in Lancaster, Ohio five days shy of his 101st birthday.