The Green Forest tribune., 1900-08-23


 the railroad magnate, and J. J. Ingalls,, the Kansas x-Senator. We give below brief sketch of each which may show some of the characteristics by which these men gained and held posi- tions of honor and responsibility.
 COLLIS P. HUNTINGTON.
 The boyhood of Collis P. Hunt ington was spent in Harwinton, Litchfield county, where he was born October 22, 1921, in an old fashioned, dilapidated house in the poverty hill district. The old house has been unoecupied for many years, and is now in the last stages of decay. His mother was a hard working Christian woman, but the father was man in whose make up ambition had no part. He was a tinker and travelled about the country mend- ing umbrellas and sharpening razors. The income of the elder Huntington was far too meager to supply the wants of his large family, and when Collis was 10 years of age his parents separat- ed. Mrs. Huntington made her home with friends, and the chil- dren were placed with families in the town. Collis made his home with the family of Orson Barbier. Mrs. Barbier was an unusually intelligent woman, and to her training, as Mr. Huntington in the days of his success always admitted, was due to the fire of ambition which early was kindled in his breast to make himself success in the world.
 Young Huntington was not 8 particularly bright student in his school days, and the last day he attended a school of any sort he had trouble with the teacher, Russell Wilson, and snatching his cap from the rack, made a bolt for the door, stopping on the threshold long enough to bid goodbye to his schoolmates and to his teacher, in a bit of verse : which furnished considerable amusement for the pupils and a good deal of discomfort for his teacher. This nasty leave- talk ing occurred just before Mr. Huntington was if years of age, and almost immediately he start ed on the road as a peddler of tin ware. He never again returned to Harwinton to make his home, but from time to time his success in the financial world reached the ears of his old schoolmates, and fifteen years ago he returned to his native town and erected a memorial to his mother, Elizabeth Vincent Huntington, which will serve to perpetuate his name and his successes in HarwintOn. The memorial was in the form of a massive granite chapel, erected at cost of S50,0 When it was completed it was presented to the Congregational Church of Har- winton, where he was a member.
 J. J. INGALLS,.
 John James Ingalls, was born in | Middleton. Essex county. Mass. December 20, 1883. Though a New Englander by birth, he has been SO closely identified with western affairs for more than forty years, that he is generally believed to be native of Kansas.
 Mr. Ingalls, original American ancestor, Edmund Ingalls,, was the first settler of Lynn, Mass, and members of his family per- formed distinguished services. in French and Indian wars, and in the war of the Revolution.
 His father was noted for many inventions, the most important of which revolutionized the man. ufacture of shoes.
 Mr. Ingalls attended private schools in Harverhill and entered Williams College, from which he was graduated in 1855. He inn mediately began the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1857; the following year he moved to Atchison, Kan, and made that city his home ever