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| '''Collis Potter Huntington''' (]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=527| title=Collis P. Huntington| work=FindAGrave| accessdate=2007-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.huntington.tierranet.com/bios/collis.htm| title=Collis Potter Huntington| author=Huntington Family Association| date=1915| accessdate=2007-04-05}}</ref> or ]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9041577/Collis-P-Huntington| title=Collis P. Huntington| work=Encyclopedia Brittanica Online| accessdate=2007-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/FGS/H/HuntingtonCollisPotter-ESStoddard-ADYarrington.shtml| title=Collis Potter HUNTINGTON & Elizabeth Stillman STODDARD & Arabella Duval YARRINGTON| work=Diana's Genealogy Home Page| author=Matthiesen, Diana Gale| accessdate=2007-04-05}} shows research notes from 1900 US census listing his birth as October 1820.</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.inn-california.com/Articles/biographic/cphuntingtonbio.html| title=Collis P. Huntington| author=Cristalen| work=Wandering Lizard| date=2007| accessdate=2007-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.bushong.net/dawn/about/college/ids100/biographies.shtml| title=Biographies of the Leaders of the Central Pacific Rail Road Company| work=The Transcontinental Railroad| author=Emord, Dawn, and Bushong, David| accessdate=2007-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhuntington.htm| title=Collis Huntington| accessdate=2007-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.netstate.com/states/peop/people/ct_cph.htm| title=Collis Potter Huntington| date=]| accessdate=2007-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| title=Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad| author=Ambrose, Stephen E.| year=2000| publisher=Touchstone| id=ISBN 0-7432-0317-8| pages=pp 47-48}} A footnote within this book cites the data to "Collis Huntington Memoir, Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley."</ref> ] – ] ]) was one of ] of western railroading (along with ], ], and ]) who built the ] as part of the first U.S. ]. Huntington then helped lead and develop other major interstate lines such as the ] and the ]. In ], he was responsible for the development of ] and the incorporation of ] into an ]. Another ] town, the city of ] was named in his honor. | |||
| ==Biography== | |||
| ===Education and early career=== | |||
| Collis Potter Huntington was born in ], USA in 1821; while some references state his birth date as ], others list ]. In 1842 he and his brother established a successful business in ], selling general merchandise. | |||
| When he saw opportunity blooming in America's West, he set out for California, and established himself as a merchant in ] at the start of the ]. Huntington succeeded in his California business, too, and it was here that he teamed up with ] selling miners' supplies and other hardware. | |||
| ===Building the first U.S. transcontinental railroad=== | |||
| In the late 1850s, he and Hopkins joined forces with two other successful businessmen, ] and ], to pursue the idea of creating a rail line that would connect the America's East and West. In 1861, these four businessmen (sometimes referred to as ]) pooled their resources and business acumen, and formed the ] company to create the western link of America's transcontinental railway system. Of the four, he had a reputation for being the most ruthless in pursing the railroad's business and the ouster of his partner, Stanford.<ref>] ].]</ref> | |||
| On ] ], at ], the tracks of the Central Pacific Railroad joined with the tracks of the ], and America had a ]. The joining was celebrated by the driving of the ]. | |||
| ===Southern Pacific Railroad=== | |||
| He was later involved in the establishment of the ], which was purchased by ] principals of the Central Pacific Railroad in 1868. The railroad's first locomotive, '']'', was named in his honor. | |||
| ===Chesapeake and Ohio Railway=== | |||
| Beginning in 1871, he oversaw completion of the ] (C&O) from ] across ] and ] to reach the ]. There, he established the planned city of ]. He became active in developing the emerging southern West Virginia ] business for the C&O. In the 1880s, he led the building of the C&O's ] which extended from the ] in Richmond east down the ] through ] to the southeastern end of the Peninsula on the harbor of ] in ] where he established ]s in at a location which became the ] in 1896. Nearby, he also founded ], the largest privately owned shipyard in the United States. | |||
| In order to supply ]s to the C&O, and by extension to the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads as well, Huntington was a major financier behind ], basing the company in Huntington, West Virginia, directly connecting to the C&O; Ensign was incorporated on ] ].<ref name=MCRM-Ensign>{{cite web| url=http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/builders/ensign.htm| title=Ensign Manufacturing Company| publisher=Mid-Continent Railway Museum| date=2006-04-09| accessdate=2008-04-15| }}</ref><ref>{{cite book| title=The American Railroad Freight Car| author=White, John H., Jr.| publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press| location=Boston and London| year=1993| isbn=0-8018-5236-6| pages=p 142| }}</ref> | |||
| ===Death, burial=== | |||
| He died in 1900 and is buried at ] in ], ]. | |||
| ==Family relationships== | |||
| Collis Huntington was the son of William and Elizabeth (Vincent) Huntington; born ] ], in Harwinton, Connecticut; he married, first, on ] ], ], of ]. She died in 1883. He remarried on ] ], ]. He died at his camp, Pine Knot, in the Adirondacks, ] ]. | |||
| The children of William Huntington and Elizabeth Vincent were | |||
| # Mary Huntington, born ] ]; married ] ], Daniel Sammis of ]. | |||
| # Solon Huntington, born ] ]. | |||
| # Rhoda Huntington, born ] ]; married ] ], Riley Dunbar of Wolcottville. | |||
| # Phebe/Phoebe Huntington, born ] ]; married ] ], Henry Pardee of ]. | |||
| # Elizabeth Huntington, born ] ]; married ] ], Hiram Yaker of ]. | |||
| # Collis Potter Huntington, born ] ] or ] (sources differ on the year). | |||
| # Joseph Huntington, born ] ]; d. ] ]; never married | |||
| # Susan L. Huntington, born August 1826; married ] ], William Porter, M.D., of ] | |||
| # Ellen Maria Huntington, born ] ]; married Isaac E. Gates of ] | |||
| Collis Huntington was the adopted father of Clara Elizabeth Prentice, born in Sacramento, in 1860. She was a niece of the first Mrs. C. P. Huntington, and was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Huntington. Clara Elizabeth Prentice-Huntington (1860-1928), as she was called, married ] of ], ], on ] ]. They made their home in ]. | |||
| Collis Huntington was also the adopted father of renowned hispanist ], son of Collis P. Huntington's second wife, by her first husband, who founded a Spanish museum and rare books library ] in upper Manhattan, which is still free and open to the public. | |||
| Collis was also uncle to another California railroad magnate, ], founder of the ] in ] and the main force behind the ] system in ]. | |||
| He was also related to ], who was a president of the ]. | |||
| ==Charity== | |||
| He acquired a substantial collection of art, and was generally recognized as one of the country's foremost art collectors. He left most of his collection, valued at some ]3 million, to the ] in ]. | |||
| ==Places named for Collis P. Huntington== | |||
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| * Collis P. Huntington Building - ] Museum, ]. | |||
| * ]. | |||
| * ], ]. | |||
| * ], and Huntington Avenue, Newport News, Virginia. | |||
| * Huntington Hall - U.S. Navy enlisted housing and USO 3100 Huntington Avenue, Newport News, Virginia | |||
| * The ] - San Francisco, California | |||
| * ] - Bronx, NY | |||
| * ], ] and ] | |||
| * Tugboat Huntington - retired 1994, now a floating exhibit and classroom at the ], Florida | |||
| * Collis Avenue, a residential street that starts at Huntington Drive in the El Sereno district of the City of Los Angeles and ends in the City of South Pasadena, California | |||
| == Collis Huntington in popular culture == | |||
| For reasons that are unclear, he was referred to in ''Black Beetles in Amber'' by ] as "Happy Hunty".<ref>{{cite web| author=Bierce, Ambrose| title=Black Beetles in Amber| url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12977/12977.txt| accessdate=2006-05-17| }}</ref> Huntington was also referenced in Carl Sandburg's poem, <i>Southern Pacific</i>. | |||
| ==Sources== | |||
| * {{cite book| title=Nothing Like It In The World; The men who built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869| author=]| year=2000| publisher=Simon & Schuster| id=ISBN 0-684-84609-8}} | |||
| ==References== | |||
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| == External links == | |||
| * , Newport News | |||
| * , San Francisco | |||
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