The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-15


Coils Potter Huntington was born in
Harwinton, Litchfeld county. Conn, on
October %, 1921. He had a local school
education until he was fourteen years old.
when his father gave him his freedom,
and from that time he supported himself.
In the interest OF the business in which he
engaged, he travelled for ten years through
the South and West and then settled with
a brother in Oneonta. New York. He
went to California in 1919. with a ship
ment of goods. trading for three months in
the Isthmus on the way, and set up BUSH
ness in miners supplies in Sacramento.
using tent for a store. Later he opened
a hardware store with Mark Hopkins, and
with Hopkins, Leland Stanford. and
Charles Croker, Mr. Huntington planned
in 1850 a trans-coniinental railroad.
Affixed to Mr. Huntington's name in the
"Cyclopedia of American Biography. from
which the foregoing outline i taken. is
the phrase railroad builder" For twenty
years and more. from 1860 on. he Was
railroad builder. Perhaps it is owing more
to him than to any other man that trans
continental railroads have played SO great
a part in the development of the country
Stanford. Croker, and Hopkins. with
Mr. Huntington, betrayed the expenses OF
a survey across the Sierra Nevada Noun
tains, and org anized the Central Pacific
Railroad. of which Mr. Huntington was
elected vice president. Congress furnished
aid by bond issue, the railroads organ
izers carrying on the work OF construction
at their own expense until the bonds be-
came available.
Mr. Huntington was at one time active
IL identified with the management of all
railroads with which he connected.
He was worker all his life. He used to
say be was an easy worker, which accounts
III F~1E hi AD-Nr ~ Nsrrr
so advanced in years. He was powerful
man, over six feet tall and striking fig
ure in Broad and Wall Streets. His for
tune has been estimated at sums ranging
above $50, 100000. all or most of il. made
in railroad building and operating and
most of il invested in railroads and Gov
erument securities. Comparatively little
OF his fortune represented real estate hold
, ings. Neither was he speculajor in stocks
of the Jay Could kind Could Mr. Hunt
ington is credited with having said. dealt
in railroads and he built and ran them.
Mr. Huntington was twice married, and
both marriages were child ess. His first
wife died in the sos. The second wife is
still living. Two children wsre adopted by
Mr. Huntington. boy and girl. Archer
NJ Huntington, the gu, is between thirtT
and forty years old. He is scho ar and
student. The daughter is the Princess
hatfield. ard was married 10 Prince Fra n
els OF that name IN 1889. Her hui bard
has an extensive reputation as a tettor
The Princess Clara is now nearly fo:t
years old.
Mr.. Huntington was reelected President
Of the Southern Pacific Railroad last April
Mr. Huntingtons principal interests of
late had been in the Southern Pacific Com
pany including its various ramifcations-
the Pacific Mail the Pacific Improvement
Company, Hotels Del Monte. Del Norte.
| Castle Crag. and Arcadia and also some
san Francisco estates, New York city es-
tates .RoCdaway Beach possessions. New
port News shipyard. and the town of Hunt
! ington W. Va.
For years Mr.. Huntington made his
| home in New York. His city house was at
Fifty-seventh Street and Fifth Avenue and
is said to have cost over $4,000 G0. Only
American workmen. and, so far as posi-
! BILE, American materials, were employed in
it's construction. Mr.. Huntington owned
a country place at Throgs Neck valued at
$500 600
Some half dozen years, since a granite
and marble tomb. which was five years in
building was finished in Woodlawn Gene
| terry for Mr.. Huntington, Not stone in
It weighs less than eighteen tons. The
tomb cost a quarter Of a rlillicn dollars.