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COLLIS POTTER HUNTINGTON, one of the great men of his time and who has left his impress upon the history of
our national development, was born October 22, 1821, at Harwinton, Connecticut. He received a common school education
and at the age of fourteen his spirit of getting along in the world mastered his educational propensities and his
father's objections and he left school. He went to California in the early days and had opportunities which he
handled masterfully. Others had the same opportunities but they did not have his brains nor his energy, and it
was he who overcame obstacles and reaped the reward of his genius. Transcontinental railways were inevitable, but
the realization of this masterful achievement would have been delayed to a much later day if there had been no
Huntington. He associated himself with Messrs. Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, and Charles Crocker, and they furnished
the money necessary for a survey across the Sierra Nevadas, secured a charter for the road, and raised, with the
government's aid, money enough to construct and equip that railway, which at the time of its completion was a marvel
of engineering and one of the wonders of the world. Mr. Huntington became president of the Southern Pacific railroad,
vice president of the Central Pacific; trustee of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, and a director of
the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company, besides being identified with many other business enterprises of
vast importance.
FROM:
A Biographical Record
Of Schuyler County, New York
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
New York and Chicago 1903.
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