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	Collis Potter Huntington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Collis Potter Huntington was born in Harwinton, Connecticut, in 1821.
		Collis Huntington was the adopted father of Clara Elizabeth Prentice, born in Sacramento, in 1860.
		Collis Huntington was also the adopted father of renowned hispanist Archer M. Huntington, son of Collis P. Huntington's second wife, by her first husband, who founded a Spanish museum and rare books library The Hispanic Society of America in upper Manhattan, which is still free and open to the public.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Collis_P._Huntington (779 words)

	CT DEP: Collis P. Huntington State Park
		Collis P. Huntington State Park was primarily in agricultural use until the Luttgen family acquired the land in the late 1800's and developed the present service roads, trails, and artificial ponds.
		Collis Potter Huntington became one of the wealthiest men in the country in the late century by his promotion and completion of the first transcontinental railroad.
		Huntington were careful to preserve the natural quality of their land, the 883 acre park is now a wonderful place for tranquility.
	dep.state.ct.us /stateparks/parks/huntington.htm (504 words)

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		Although Huntington obtained his opportunities through a family relationship, it was his personal initiative, his skill in building and managing commercial railways, and his enormous sense of loyalty that were the true sources of his success (Dickenson, 4).
		Collis was also childless and may have viewed H.E. as a surrogate son, a relationship that was reciprocated by H.E., who was not close to his father (Spurgeon, 1992, 4).
		By marrying her, he was claiming someone who intimately belonged to Collis, and, to some extent, she was both a connection to Collis and proof of his ability to overcome Collis’s domination.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~pharrer/Assets/HUNTINGTON.doc (2992 words)

	Industrial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The city of Huntington is located on a broad level plain on the south bank of the Ohio River with the Guyandotte River near the eastern boundary and the Big Sandy River beyond the western edge of the city (Casto 25).
		If it were not for the railroad, Collis P. Huntington would have never claimed the area for his town site, and the railroad would not have brought workers and their families, which attracted prospectors to invest in a number of businesses.
		The floods in Huntington caused a number of businesses to leave the downtown area, and deterred new business investors to build their businesses elsewhere because they felt threatened by the Ohio River, but today flooding is no threat to the downtown area due to the construction of a huge floodwall.
	webpages.marshall.edu /~jones69/Industrial.htm (2137 words)

	Collis P. Huntington
		Collis Potter Huntington was born in Hartwin Township, Connecticut, on October 22, 1821.
		Collis was the sixth child in the family.
		Huntington and his group stayed in San Francisco a matter of a few days before continuing on by riverboat to Sacramento and then on east by foot to the actual gold fields.
	www.inn-california.com /Articles/biographic/cphuntingtonbio.html (1031 words)

	John Archer
		Collis Huntington is in the1850 Oneonta, Otsego Co, NY census, p.
		Huntington's representations made to Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford and Mark Hopkins, the fund was raised, and the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California was organized in 1861, with a capital of $8,500,000, with Mr.
		Huntington erected a mansion on Fifth avenue, New York city, which, with the picture gallery, was, at the time of his death, valued at about $3.000,000; a country home at Throggs Neck, NY; a mansion in San Francisco, Cal., and an ample camp in the mountains of northern New York.
	www.geocities.com /worsham-washam/john_archer.htm (3990 words)

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		Collis Huntington died on August 13, 1900, at the age of 78.
		Collis P. Huntington in 1855 in Sacramento, and remained a member of that firm until his death.
		Collis Huntington remarked that he "never thought anything finished until Hopkins looked at it, which is praise enough".
	bushong.net /dawn/about/college/ids100/biographies.shtml (2000 words)

	American Experience \| Transcontinental Railroad \| People & Events
		Huntington agreed to invest and brought in Hopkins, Leland Stanford, and Charles Crocker to do the same.
		Huntington's experience as a businessman made him a master calculator with a hardened exterior.
		Huntington enjoyed backroom politics, but he was cautious.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/tcrr/peopleevents/p_huntington.html (627 words)

	Huntington Collis Potter - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The nephew of Collis Potter Huntington, he was born in...
		Huntington (West Virginia), city in western West Virginia.
		Huntington is the seat of Cabell County and is also in Wayne County.
	encarta.msn.com /Huntington_Collis_Potter.html (164 words)

	Collis Potter Huntington Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Collis Potter Huntington (1821-1900), American railroad builder, was a promoter and manager of the Central Pacific Railway and was prominent later in the Southern Pacific Company.
		Collis P. Huntington was born on Oct. 22, 1821, at Harwinton, Conn. His early life was hard.
		Huntington's group, the Central Pacific, built eastward from California, while the Union Pacific pushed westward from Omaha, Nebr. The two met at Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10, 1869.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/collis-potter-huntington (430 words)

	Collis Potter Huntington -- 1.3.6.7.6.2.6
		COLLIS POTTER HUNTINGTON, son of William and Elizabeth (Vincent) Huntington; born April 16, 1821, in Harwinton, Conn.; married, first, September 16, 1844, Elizabeth T. Stoddard, of Cornwall, Conn. She died in 1883.
		Huntington then, with Hopkins, the Crockers, T. Judah and Stanford, went to work on a scheme, and the survey of the Sierra Nevada mountains for a trans-continental railroad was made on money advanced by them.
		Huntington then pushed his connections westward, through West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi, until he was able to rido his own private car over his own tracks from the gateway of the Old Dominion on the Atlantic to the Golden Gate on the Pacific coast, a feat accomplished by no other man in America.
	www.huntington.tierranet.com /bios/collis.htm (552 words)

	Fortnightly Club of Redlands
		Henry Huntington was regarded by himself and some others to be the logical successor to his uncle as president of the S.P. To his great disappointment, a group of large stockholders blocked his ambitions.
		Huntington began his own railroad empire by buying controlling interest in the street railways in the city of Los Angeles and a new line that went from Los Angeles to Pasadena.
		Huntington went out of the interurban rail business and into the electric power business as the automobile was beginning to be a favorite mode of transportation and the need for electric power was increasing daily.
	www.redlandsfortnightly.org /papers/Britt03.htm (5127 words)

	American Experience \| Transcontinental Railroad \| People & Events
		Politics cemented Hopkins' relationship to Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Crocker's brother Edwin.
		They had a difficult go at first; local Democrats invaded meetings, or accosted them on the street with shouts of "Black Republican!" All five future railroaders were in fact abolitionists, as were many of their Republican peers, but they knew a controversial platform would not get the party on its feet.
		Huntington used this logic to sell the venture to his business partner: if their small group of associates got in on the ground floor of a railroad proposal, kindred spirits in Washington might well reward them construction rights when the measure passed.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/tcrr/peopleevents/p_hopkins.html (755 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Huntington is on State Highway 69 and the Southern Pacific line, fifteen miles northwest of Zavalla and ten miles east of Lufkin in central Angelina County.
		It was established in 1900 and named for Collis P. Huntington, the chairman of the board of the Southern Pacific.
		Huntington, like nearby towns in Angelina County, was carved from virgin forests during the heyday of the southern pine timber industry.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/HH/hjh16.html (496 words)

	Huntington, Collis Potter. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Seeing the desirability of a direct route to the silver mines newly opened in what is now Nevada, Huntington, Hopkins, Charles Crocker, and Leland Stanford organized a railroad company (the Central Pacific).
		Huntington’s financial acumen and success in winning subsidies and favorable legislation from Congress gave him and his partners practical control of transportation in the West.
		His vast fortune was left mostly to his nephew, Henry Edwards Huntington, except for bequests to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.
	www.bartleby.com /65/hu/HuntngtC.html (203 words)

	HRCC Online Lifestyle Guide
		Huntington owes much of its history to a man who, ironically, never lived in the city, much less in the state of West Virginia-railroad mogul and city founder Collis P. Huntington.
		Huntington chose his site well; the community quickly thrived as a gateway to and from the coalfields of southern West Virginia.
		In Cabell County, the Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce and the county's public schools have parented to build one of the strongest school-to-work programs in the country.
	www.huntingtonchamber.org /localinfo/lifestyle.html (1931 words)

	Camp Huntington - History
		In 1947, Huntington’s son, Archer, and his wife, Anna, presented to the College the original 201-acre site and historical buildings in the memory of Collis P. Huntington.
		Collis P. Huntington died Aug. 13 at Camp Pine Knot at the age of 79.
		Anna Hyatt Huntington, a sculptor who made the bronze bust of her husband that is displayed at the Raquette Lake Center, died in 1973 at the age of 97.
	www.cortland.edu /outdoor/raquette/ch_history.html (1196 words)

	Collis Huntington (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Collis Huntington was born at Harwinton, Connecticut, on 22nd October, 1821.
		Huntington soon emerged as the leader of the company and he made a fortune when the roadroad was completed between California and Utah.
		Collis Huntington became president of the Southern Pacific-Central Company in 1890 and retained this position until his death on 13th August, 1900.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /USAhuntington.htm (359 words)

	Collis P. Huntington — FactMonster.com
		Huntington worked tirelessly on the east coast to line up financing and lobby Congress to give the CP Railroad whatever it needed to succeed.
		In 1884, the so-called “Huntington's group” formed the Southern Pacific Railway with Stanford as president (Huntington succeeded him in 1890).
		Huntington was also active in east-coast transportation enterprises, including the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and a steamship business.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0771946.html (221 words)

	Collis Potter Huntington - People of Connecticut
		ollis Potter Huntington was born in Harwinton, Connecticut on October 22, 1821.
		stimates of Collis Potter Huntington's massive fortune put his worth at 35 million dollars, and he was one of the country's largest landholders.
		Collis Potter Huntington died at his camp, Pine Knot, in the Adirondacks on August 13, 1900.
	www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/ct_cph.htm (624 words)

	Newort News History - Virginiana Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Collis Potter Huntington played a big role in the history of Newport News, Virginia.
		Huntington Library, San Marino, CA - In 1919 Henry E. and Arabella D. Huntington (Collis Huntington's nephew and his widow married after his death) established a trust, leaving a portion of their estate--a vast library, art collections, and botanical gardens--for the benefit of the public.
		Now The Huntington is one of the nation's premier cultural, research, and educational centers.
	www.newport-news.va.us /library/virgrm/nnhist.htm (327 words)

	Collis P. Huntington Letter, 1867.
		COLLIS P. Huntington was one of the most important railroad builders in American history and partly responsible for the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
		In 1860, he was approached by Theodore Judah with a plan to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada Mountains as part of a Transcontinental Railroad.
		Judah’s plan combined the talents of Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, known as “The Big Four.”; These able men led to the completion of the Central Pacific Railroad, culminating in its connection with the Union Pacific at Promontory Point, Utah in May 1869.
	cprr.org /Museum/Ephemera/CP_Huntington.html (309 words)

	COLLIS P.
		As a Connecticut youth of 14, he was apprenticed to a neighboring farmer and saved enough to establish himself first as a peddler and later as the successful owner of a country store.
		In 1848, gold was discovered in California and Collis eagerly joined the Gold Rush.
		At the age of 39, Huntington joined three other businessmen in financing railroad construction and eventually became the only man ever able to ride in his own railroad car on tracks he either owned or controlled, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
	www.wvhumanities.org /collisp.htm (193 words)

	Time Capsule Opening
		Collis P. Huntington's statue stood as a silent reminder to societies' general ignorance of history, as Collis P. was always a thorn in the backside to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
		Huntington Mayor Jean Dean; Den Busz president of the Huntington Chamber of Commerce; Gerry Gates, new VP of CSX's Central Region and Bill Carper Resident Vice President of Norfolk Southern.
		The Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society had their handcar plus their newly painted velocipede on hand - Pieces of Railroad equipment that was used daily from the 1920's up to the 1970's.
	www.putnampost.com /timecap.htm (2895 words)

	Collis P. Huntington
		The following is a list of books and articles about Collis P. Huntington which can be found at the West Virginia State Archives Library.
		Miller, Doris C. A Centennial History of Huntington, West Virginia, 1871-1971.
		"Ambrose Bierce and Collis P. Huntington," Huntington Advertiser, 10-20-1977.
	www.wvculture.org /hiStory/notewv/huntington.html (93 words)

	Connecticut State Parks: Collis P. Huntington, Redding, CT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Connecticut State Parks: Collis P. Huntington, Redding, CT 878 acres.
		The Park was a gift of Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington (world famous sculptor) in memory of Archer Huntington's stepfather Collis P. Huntington (railroad builder and transportation millionaire).
		The scenic country lanes throughout the park are canopied with sugar maples.
	www.friendsctstateparks.org /parks/collis_p_huntington.htm (126 words)

	Chesapeake Ohio and Southwestern Railroad Company signed by Collis P. Huntington 1880's
		Collis Huntington was a merchant, philanthropist, and founding partner of the Central Pacific Rail road
		Collis Huntington played the principal character acquiring federal grant assistance, loans and land grants for the Central Pacific Rail road's part of the Transcontinental Rail road
		Upon his death Collis Huntington 's entire art collection was left to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
	www.scripophily.net /chesohandsou.html (537 words)

	Collis Potter Huntington promoter of the Central Pacific Railroad
		ollis Potter Huntington (1821-1900) was raised in Connecticut and in the late 1840's he was a partner with his elder brother Solon Huntington in a dry-goods store in Oneonta NY.
		He already had a background of an itinerant merchant and from this he knew much of the countryside in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and even Indiana and Virginia.
		In 1844, the same year he started S and C.P. Huntington with his brother in Oneonta, he married Elizabeth Stoddard of Cornwall Connecticut.
	www.raken.com /american_wealth/railroad_barons/central_pacific4.asp (164 words)

	Collis Potter HUNTINGTON & Elizabeth Stillman STODDARD & Arabella Duval Yarrington
		The Huntington Family in America: a Genealogical Memoir of the Known Descendants of Simon Huntington from 1633 to 1915.
		While passing as his "niece," she was the mistress of C.P. Huntington for nearly fifteen years.
		He was a man of stupendous wealth who kept his first wife so totally in the background that most people did not know he was married.
	dgmweb.net /genealogy/FGS/H/HuntingtonCollisPotter-ESStoddard-ADYarrington.shtml (764 words)

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