Collis Potter Huntington

Collis Potter Huntington ( born October 22, 1821 in Harwinton ( USA); † August 13, 1900 in New York) was one of the Big Four ( Big Four ) in railway construction in the western U.S. (along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker ), built by the Southern Pacific Railroad and other major railroad lines.

Life

Collis Potter Huntington was born 1821 in Harwinton, Connecticut. He was a successful businessman from Sacramento and he helped the Central Pacific Railroad in the 1860s to finance. This was in 1869 connected with the Union Pacific Railroad in a ceremony by a golden threshold nail and it was the first transcontinental railway in North America. Later Huntington was involved in the construction of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

From 1871, he oversaw the construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway through Virginia and West Virginia to the Ohio River. Huntington founded named after him and planned city of Huntington, West Virginia and the Kohlenpiere in Warwick County, Virginia. It was here that in 1896 the city of Newport News. He also founded the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, the largest private shipyard of the United States.

He died in 1900 and was at the cemetery Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx (New York) buried.

Relative

Collis Huntington is the father of Hispanists (Latin America watchers ) Archer M. Huntington, the Hispanic Society of America founded, which includes a Spanish museum and a library with rare books. The visit of the Hispanic Society of America in northern Manhattan is still free and available to everyone.

Collis was also related to another railroad magnate from California: Henry E. Huntington, founder of the eponymous Library in San Marino, California, and the main person behind the Pacific Electric Railway, which took place mainly transport tasks in Los Angeles.

Relates he was the chairman of the Virginian Railway also with Clarence Huntington.