Peter Fenelon Collier (December 12, 1849 – April 23, 1909) was the founder of the publishing company
P.F. Collier & Son, and in 1888 founded
Collier's Weekly. P.F. Collier & Son Company published the encyclopedias
Collier's Cyclopedia of Social and Commercial Information (1883, Editor Nugent Robinson), the
New American Encyclopedia of Social and Commercial Information (1908, Editor James E. Homans) and the 10 volume
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921, 1926, 1928, Editor Francis J. Reynolds, Chairman William A. Neilson).