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	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.
		There is no parking fee at Collis P. Huntington State Park.
	dep.state.ct.us /stateparks/parks/huntington.htm

	Henry Huntington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After Huntington died in Philadelphia, his library, art collection, and botanical gardens were opened to the public.
		When Collis died in 1900, Henry inherited much of his uncle's fortune, which he sold and used to establish the Pacific Electric Railway.
		In 1903, Huntington began collecting rare books and manuscripts; this was the beginning of
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Huntington

	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 delighted in vexing the Union Pacific where he could.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/tcrr/peopleevents/p_huntington.html

	Wiseman & Burke Newsletter
		Huntington, one of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad, the western half of the transcontinental railroad that had joined the nation at Promontory Point Utah, just two decades earlier in 1869, was known to be one of the richest men in the county.
		Huntington's response was to send him to Southern California with an open checkbook in a second effort to negotiate a right of way through the land with the Yorba family.
		Huntington was a crude and demanding human being who The Chronicle frequently portrayed as a greedy, manipulative businessman.
	www.wiseman-burke.com /arch68.htm

	AllRefer.com - Collis Potter Huntington, (Business Leaders, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Collis Potter Huntington 1821–1900, American railroad builder, b.
		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.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/HuntngtC.html

	Collis P. Huntington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Collis Potter Huntington was born in Harwinton, Connecticut, in 1821.
		Collis Huntington was the father of renowned hispanist Archer M. Huntington, 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.
		Collis was also related to another California railroad magnate, Henry E. Huntington, founder of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California and the main force behind the Pacific Electric system in Los Angeles, CA.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Collis_Huntington (312 words)

	Britt 2003
		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.
		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.
		Collis or “C.P.” was born into a poor farming family near Hartford, Connecticut in 1822.
	www.redlandsfortnightly.org /Britt03.htm (312 words)

	John Archer Worsham
		Huntington in 1884 after a long liaison, Arabella Huntington kept her money in the family, as it were, when in 1913, age sixty-three, she married her sixty-four-year-old nephew by marriage and fellow heir, Henry Edwards Huntington.
		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.
		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.
	www.worsham.larrywasham.com /john_archer.htm (312 words)

	Collis P. Huntington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Collis Potter Huntington was born in Harwinton, Connecticut, in 1821.
		Collis Huntington was related to another California railroad magnate,
		Clarence Huntington, who was a president of the
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Collis_Huntington (312 words)

	Collis Potter Huntington - People of Connecticut
		Collis Potter Huntington died at his camp, Pine Knot, in the Adirondacks on August 13, 1900.
		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.
		Huntington succeeded in his California business, too, and it was here that he teamed up with Mark Hopkins selling miners' supplies and other hardware.
	www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/ct_cph.htm (312 words)

	New Page 1
		The library took on an important new role in 1930, when Archer M. Huntington, Collis’s adopted son and benefactor of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, built an addition to the Huntington Free Library to house the museum’s book collection which was transferred to the library.
		Huntington was the founder of the Hispanic Society of America which shared Audubon Terrace with the Museum of the American Indian and several other cultural institutions.
		This situation was resolved in 1930 when Heye’s friend and colleague, Archer M. Huntington, volunteered to build an addition to the Huntington Free Library and Reading Room in the Bronx to house the museum’s book collection.
	www.binc.org /hfl/html/home.htm (312 words)

	Collis P. Huntington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Collis Potter Huntington was born in Harwinton, Connecticut, in 1821.
		Collis Huntington was related to another California railroad magnate, Henry E. Huntington, founder of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California and the main force behind the Pacific Electric system in Los Angeles, CA.
		Collis Potter Huntington (October 22 1821 – August 13 1900) was one of the Big Four of western railroading (along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker) who built the Southern Pacific Railroad and other major interstate train lines.
	www.chico.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Collis_Huntington (314 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.
		Judah& 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.
		A year and a half before finishing the Transcontinental Railroad, Huntington wrote about the meeting point between the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific:
	cprr.org /Museum/Ephemera/CP_Huntington.html (314 words)

	Henry Edwards Huntington
		Bolstered by a huge fortune bequeathed him by Collis Huntington when he died in 1900 (Henry married Collis’ widow, Arabella, 13 year later), the already wealthy Huntington turned his attention to establishing the legacy for which he is perhaps best remembered -- the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif.
		Throughout his life, writes James Thorpe in " Henry E. Huntington: A Biography," Huntington was recognized as an extremely hard worker with a practical turn of mind, friendly, courteous and with a deep love of family.
		Huntington died of bronchial pneumonia in 1927 at the age of 77.
	www.socalhistory.org /Biographies/huntington.htm (314 words)

	Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society
		The caboose was retired in November, 1980, and was donated on December 16, 1980 to Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society, on CandO sales order #7289, and was placed at their museum on November 3, 1980.
		CandO Caboose 90665, This caboose was built in 1924 at the CandO Shops, Huntington, WV, as a part of a group of 25 cabooses which were of the standard CandO caboose design of the era, and had 13/16" wood sheathing and arch-bar type trucks.
		In 1970 it was dispatched to the CandO shops in Huntington for general reconditioning where a major rehab program was underway for older wood and early steel cabooses.
	www.newrivertrain.com /museum.shtml (314 words)

	COLLIS P.
		COLLIS P. HUNTINGTON - Railroad Mogul and City Founder- 1821-1900
		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.
		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.
	www.wvhumanities.org /collisp.htm (314 words)

	Collis Huntington
		Collis Huntington became president of the Southern Pacific-Central Company in 1890 and retained this position until his death on 13th August, 1900.
		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 was born at Harwinton, Connecticut, on 22nd October, 1821.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAhuntington.htm (314 words)

	Transcontinental Railroad - Driving the Last Spike - 1869
		Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins were the “Big Four&; that conceived this enterprise and brought it to a successful ending after years of daily struggle that would have exhausted the patience and spirit of ordinary men.
		In passing the store of Collis P. Huntington in Sacramento, one day, he noticed one of the huge freight wagons being loaded for the arduous haul over the Sierra into Nevada.
		Huntington looked after the financing of the company.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist1/rail.html (314 words)

	Collis P. Huntington
		During the California Gold Rush of the mid-nineteenth century, Collis P. Huntington reaped substantial profits as a merchant in Sacramento.
		Huntington went on to join a small group of railway magnates who organized the Southern Pacific system, and eventually his rail interests stretched from Oregon to Newport News, Virginia.
		Among his most important contributions in assuring the prosperity of this empire were his lobbying efforts among members of Congress, and even in an age noted for its bribery and influence peddling, he ranked among the more uninhibited practitioners of such tactics.
	www.npg.si.edu /colls/b&o/hunting2.htm (314 words)

	Charleston Daily Mail
		When railroad mogul Collis P. Huntington bought the land to build his city about 1870, he didn't make a provision for a park.
		City leaders had gone to Huntington with a request for a city park and Huntington told them he would be happy to sell them land for a park, Casto said.
		It didn't take a sales job to get people in Huntington and the environs to begin using the park, according to James L. McClelland, director of the Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District for the last 28 years.
	www.dailymail.com /news/News/2005060712 (314 words)

	Collis P. Huntington
		Huntington was also active in east-coast transportation enterprises, including the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and a steamship business.
		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).
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0771946.html (314 words)

	Huntington, Collis P -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Online Article
		Huntington, Collis P. American railroad magnate who promoted the Central Pacific Railroad's extension across the West, making possible the first transcontinental railroad in 1869.
		Huntington, Henry E. With a fortune acquired in the railroad industry, Henry E. Huntington established one of the finest collections of art, English manuscripts, and Americana in the world.
		A haven for surfing enthusiasts, Huntington Beach is in Orange County on the Pacific coast 35 miles (56 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles and boasts a beach 8 miles (14 kilometers) long.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article?eu=392893 (314 words)

	Huntington Genealogy
		Collis P. Huntington, and that Collis P. was an uncle.
		I did clear up that C.P. was not his uncle.
		Family legend has it that Harry David was educated by
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Park/3252 (314 words)

	Family Ties
		Children were: Arthur Stoddard Emmons, Collis Huntington Emmons, Carleton Delos Emmons, Julius Alden Emmons, Elizabeth Emmons.
		He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and members of the Huntington chapter will have charge of the funeral.
		She was married to Charles Marsh Gohen on 14 Jun 1906 in Huntington, Cabell Co., WV.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~cabell/d81.html (314 words)

	Jim Casto of Huntington, West Virginia, Presents Collis P. Huntington
		ostumed as Collis P. Huntington, James E. Casto regularly appears at civic clubs, schools and other groups in a first-person program that offers a glimpse of the famed rail tycoon’s life and times.
		Active in community affairs, he’s a board member with the United Way of the River Cities, Goodwill Industries, the Huntington Area Food Bank, the Tri-State Area Boy Scout Council, the Friends of the Cabell County Public Library, the Marshall University Library Associates and the West Virginia Faculty Merit Foundation.
		A native of Huntington, he attended Bethany College at Bethany, W.Va., and is a graduate of Marshall University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in English.
	www.collisphuntington.com /pages/aboutjim.htm (314 words)

	Webchat
		Collis Huntington and Mark Hopkins were in the hardware business.
		Huntington and Hopkins were partners in a hardware company, Standford operated a grocery buisness with his brothers, and Crocker was a dry goods merchant.
		Huntington and Hopkins were partners in a hardware company,Stanrord operated a grocery store and Crocker was a dry good mechant.
	www.rain.org /chats/campinternet20000215.html (314 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.
		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.
		A great howl rose from some quarters of the city protesting the move of Collis P. The city fathers still moved the statue to this area and to an establishment called Heritage Station, which is what became of the BandO freight house and depot.
	www.putnampost.com /timecap.htm (314 words)

	UMI :: Huntington (Collis P.) Papers, The, 1856-1901
		The life and career of Collis P. Huntington, as reflected in this collection, are representative of the rags-to-riches stories of many men who helped build the United States.
		Scholars studying the life of Huntington and researchers tracing the influence of prominent entrepreneurs on American economic and political life will find this collection a valuable resource.
		By far the most important and voluminous part of this collection consists of Huntington's business and personal correspondence.
	www.umi.com /research/pd-product-Huntington-Collis-P-287.shtml (314 words)

	Collis P. Huntington State Park Redding, Connecticut (State Parks)
		Collis P. Huntington State Park, named after the railroad tycoon who completed the first transcontinental railroad, was willed to the State by the Huntington Family.
		Collis P. Huntington State Park Redding, Connecticut (State Parks)
		The well-known sculptress Anna Hyatt Huntington, whose works welcome visitors at the park entrance here and at the Putnam Memorial State Park entrance in Redding, is most known for her Joan of Arc statue in New York City and the El Cid Campeador monument in Seville, Spain.
	www.ohwy.com /ct/c/collissp.htm (314 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Huntington Collis Potter
		Huntington, Collis Potter (1821-1900), American railroad magnate and capitalist, born in Harwinton, Connecticut.
		The nephew of Collis Potter Huntington, he was born in Oneonta,...
		Huntington, Collis Potter: picture of Central Pacific Railroad
	encarta.msn.com /Huntington_Collis_Potter.html (144 words)

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