Search results
Collis Potter Huntington by Evans, Cerinda W. Publication date 1954 Topics Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900, Huntington family, Huntington, Collis Potter Publisher Newport News, Va. : Mariners' Museum Collection allen_county; americana Contributor Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Language
Collis Potter Huntington fue un empresario del ferrocarril estadounidense, conocido por haber completado el Central Pacific, el primer ferrocarril transcontinental en los Estados Unidos. Su actividad empresarial propició el desarrollo de Newport News en Virginia, y como filántropo, fundó numerosas instituciones culturales y cedió su colección de arte al Museo Metropolitano de Arte de ...
19 de sept. de 2017 · At an indeterminate time, perhaps in Johnny’s gambling establishment in Richmond or in New York, perhaps through Belle’s younger brother, a railroad employee, Belle met the wealthy, married railroad magnate and industrialist Collis Potter Huntington, nearly thirty years her senior.
RAQUETTE LAKE, N.Y., Aug. 14.—Collis P. Huntington died at his camp, Pine Knot, in the Adirondacks, at about midnight. Apparently well on retiring at 11 o’clock, he was taken suddenly with one of the choking spells to which he was subject, and which was not thought to be serious, but he became worse. As soon as the seriousness of the attack ...
22 de oct. de 2023 · Collis Potter Huntington was born today in 1822, the sixth of nine children born to William and Elizabeth Huntington of Harwinton, Connecticut. The Huntington family, owners of a farm in a section of Harwinton fittingly known as “Poverty Hollow,” constantly struggled to make ends meet, forcing Collis to set off on his own as a teenager as an itinerant seller of wares — the archetypal ...
English: Collis Potter Huntington (1821-1900) — American railroad baron, businessperson, and land developer in California. One of the Big Four who formed the Central Pacific Railroad to build the western section of the First Transcontinental Railroad (1863-1869). Collis Potter Huntington.
Collis Potter Huntington (1821-1900) John Archer Worsham (1821-1878) Mother. Arabella Huntington (1850-1924) He is generally believed to have been the illegitimate son of the railroad tycoon Collis P. Huntington who met his mother at a gambling table in Richmond, Virgina, while she was the mistress of the saloon proprietor, Worsham.
