Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-20

died at his camp, Pine Knot, in the
Adirondacks, at about midnight. APP
parently we'll on retiring at IL o'clock,
he was taken suddenly with a chok-
ing SPELL and not more than three
quarters of an hour passed between
the attack and his death. Mrs. Hunt
ington and Mr.. Huntington's secre-
tary, G. b. Miles, were at his bedside
Early in the day of Monday Mr.. Hunt
ington appeared to be enjoying the
best of health, walking about his pre-
serve, and taking trip on his private
steamer; and he remarked to friends
that he was feeling unusually we'll
His adopted son, Archer M. Hunt
ington, was notified and is hourly ex-
Huntington, wife, and servants ar
rived at Durant August 10, in their
private car. The steamer Oneonta
was awaiting their arrival at the wharf
to convey them to their mountain
home, Pine Knot camp.
Mr.. Huntington was president and
director of the Southern Pacific cCm-
pany; president and direct0r of the
Pacific Mail Steamship company, presi-
dent and director of the Southern Pa
cifc Railroad company of California,
director Of the California Pacific Rail
road company, director of the Caves
ton, Harrisburg & San Antonio Rail-
road company, president and director
Of the Guatemala Central Railroad
company, and director also in the fol-
lowing:
Gulf, Western Texas & Pacific Rail
way company, Louisville Western Rail-
road company Mexican International
Railroad company, Morgan's Louisiana
& Texas Railroad and Steamship COM
pany, Newport News Light and Water
company, Old Dominion Steamship
company, Old Dominion Land com
pany, Oregon & California Railroad
company, Western Union Telegraph
company, Detroit Gas company, Fuente
Coal company, and Metropolitan Trust
company of this city.
Huntington, as one of the foremost
of the money kings of America, was
known the world over. His rise in
the commercial world began in coun-
try town store in the empire STATE
He passed rapidly through the stages
Of miner, business man, organizer of
the first trans-continental railroad
and finally became the head of one Of
the wealthiest railway systems in the
10 ics ocs4i TO- OF
between $4O,000,OOO and S5O,O00,0OO
He was born in the town of HarWin-
ton, Litchfeld county, Conn, on Oct
%, 1924. His ancestors had been
prominent men of affairs when the
United States was a colonial province
of Great Britain. Samuel Huntington,
his grandfather, who came from Puri-
tan stock, was president of the CONT
mental congress, a signer of the decla
ration of independence, and afterward
governor and chief justice of the state
Of Connecticut. Other noted relatives
of Mr.. Huntington were Bishop F. d.
Huntington and Daniel Huntington,
the painter.
His early years were spent in the
town of his birth, but in 1850, when
but IA years OF age, he left school and
began work at a salary Of $84 a year,
all of which he saved.
Two years later he went to New
York, where for several years he
increasing capital, handling watch
findings, jewelry, and siIverWare. With
letters of recommendation from the
merchants with whom he had dealt in
New York he travelled through the
south, and by shrewdness and industry
bettered his condition every succeeding
year.
When he was but % years old he
formed a partnership with his brother
Scion, in Oneonta, Otsego county, New
York, where he remained for six years
His first dream of wealth came when
the accidental discovery of gold in
California opened up the Eldorado of
the west to the thousands that poured
over the plains or went the round
about way of the Isthmus of Panama
and Cape Horn.
He sailed on vessel bound for Pan
anna, taking with him a cash capital
Of 81, 200. He was detained at the 18TH
mus for three months waiting for a
boat to carry him up the Pacific coast.
In the meantime his early business
training stood him in good stead, and
by exercising his faculty for trading
he increased his capital to $4,000.
At that time he was a man of mes
nificent stature and strength. While
living under the facilitating climate
Of the isthmus of Panama he was con-
stantly active. While his companions
we're dissipating and wasting their
time and money at the gambling ta-
bles young Huntington walked from
ocean to ocean, a distance of "a miles,
no less than 20 times.
Selecting Sacramento as the base of
his future operations he established
the firm of Huntington & Hopkins,
dealing in hardware and miners sup