35 Facts About Collis Huntington

Collis Potter Huntington was an American industrialist and railway magnate.

Collis Huntington was one of the Big Four of western railroading who invested in Theodore Judah's idea to build the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first US transcontinental railroad.

Collis Huntington is credited with the development of Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, as well as the incorporation of Newport News, Virginia as a new independent city.

From his base in Washington, Collis Huntington was a lobbyist for the Central Pacific and the Southern Pacific in the 1870s and 1880s.

Collis Huntington was generous in providing bribes to politicians and congressmen.

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Collis Potter Huntington was born in Harwinton, Connecticut, on October 22,1821.

Collis Huntington never forgot what he thought was the untapped potential of the area, where the James River emptied into the large harbor of Hampton Roads.

When Collis Huntington saw opportunity in America's West, he set out for California.

Collis Huntington set up as a merchant in Sacramento at the start of the California Gold Rush.

Collis Huntington teamed up with Mark Hopkins selling miners' supplies and other hardware.

Collis Huntington negotiated in Washington, DC, with Grenville Dodge, who was supervising railroad construction from the East, over where the railroads should meet.

At the formerly sleepy little farming community of Newport News Point, Collis Huntington began other, building the landmark Hotel Warwick and founding the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company.

Collis Huntington is largely credited with vision and the combination of developments which created and built a vibrant and progressive community.

Collis Huntington later was hired as principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, another historically black college, and developed it into Tuskegee University.

Collis Huntington died at his "camp, " Pine Knot, in the Adirondack Mountains on August 13,1900.

Collis Huntington is interred in a Classical-style mausoleum at the Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.

Collis Huntington was agent and attorney for the Southern Pacific Railroad, vice-president and general agent for the Central Pacific Railroad, first vice-president of the Southern Pacific Company, and a director of the two lines.

Collis Huntington first asked to delay payments for fifty years, then for a hundred years.

Collis Huntington lost the battle in Congress in 1899 and the Southern Pacific finally paid off the loans in 1909.

Collis Huntington was vindictive, sometimes untruthful, interested in comparatively few things outside of business, and disposed to resist the idea that his railroad enterprises were to any degree burdened with public obligations.

Collis Huntington was the dominant spirit among the small group of men who built up the Southern Pacific system, and that great organization remains his monument.

Collis Huntington was the son of William and Elizabeth Huntington; born October 22,1821, in Harwinton, Connecticut.

Collis Huntington married Elizabeth Stillman Stoddard, of Cornwall, Connecticut, on September 16,1844.

Collis Huntington brought to the marriage her son Archer Milton Worsham, from her first marriage, whom Huntington adopted that year.

Collis Huntington died at his Camp Pine Knot, in the Adirondacks, August 13,1900.

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Archer M Huntington became a well-known Hispanist and founded The Hispanic Society of America, a museum and rare-books library dedicated to Spanish and Portuguese history, art, and culture, based in upper Manhattan, in New York City.

Archer and his second wife, sculptor Anna Hyatt Collis Huntington, founded Brookgreen Gardens sculpture and botanical gardens near Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.

Collis Huntington founded the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, one of the largest of its kind in the world.

Collis Huntington was active in Los Angeles, California, where he was the main force behind development of the Pacific Electric system.

Collis Huntington was related to Clarence Huntington, a president of the Virginian Railway who succeeded Urban H Broughton.

Collis Huntington was the son-in-law of the VGN's founder, industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers.

Collis Huntington acquired a substantial collection of art, and was generally recognized as one of the country's foremost art collectors.

Collis Huntington left most of his collection, valued at $3 million, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, to pass into the museum's hands after the death of his stepson, Archer.

Collis Huntington made specific bequests totaling $125,000 to Hampton University and to the Chapin Home for the Aged.

Collis Huntington was referred to in Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce as "Happy Hunty".