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Collis P. Huntington, c.1872 by Stephen W. Shaw | |
| Born | (1821-10-22)October 22, 1821 Harwinton, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | August 13, 1900(1900-08-13) (aged 78) Camp Pine Knot, Raquette Lake, New York |
| Resting place | Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Employer | Central Pacific Railroad Southern Pacific Railroad Chesapeake & Ohio Railway |
| Known for | First Transcontinental Railroad |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Stillman Stoddard (m.1844; died 1883)Arabella Huntington (m.1884) |
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Collis Potter Huntington (October 22, 1821 – August 13, 1900) was an American industrialist and railway magnate. He was one of the Big Four of western railroading (along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker) who invested in Theodore Judah's idea to build the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. Huntington helped lead and develop other major interstate lines, such as the Southern Paci
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The Great Persuader
The Biography of Collis P. Huntington
by David Lavender
Imprint:University Press of Colorado
"[L]avish and fascinating detail, emphasizing in particular the complex, often illegal, financial and political wirepulling that generally won the day for Huntington."
—Kirkus
"David Lavender's biography probably will remain the standard account of Collis Potter Huntington for some decades to come."
—Montana Magazine
The Great Persuader is the biography of a robber baron, the greatest railroad mogul of them all—Collis P. Huntington, the Sacramento, California storekeeper who, along with Leland Stanford and Mark Hopkins, parlayed $1,500 into America's first continental railroad. It is an almost unbelievable story of a high dream of fortune realized through highhanded practices—an adventure which left the national treasury poorer by millions of swindled dollars, and America itself richer by a national railroad system which contributed greatly to the country's westward expansion. How did Huntington operate? What were his methods? W
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Collis Potter Huntington
American railroad magnate (1821–1900)
Collis Potter Huntington | |
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Collis P. Huntington, c. 1872 by Stephen W. Shaw | |
| Born | (1821-10-22)October 22, 1821[1] Harwinton, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | August 13, 1900(1900-08-13) (aged 78) Camp Pine Knot, Raquette Lake, New York, U.S. |
| Resting place | Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Employer(s) | Central Pacific Railroad Southern Pacific Railroad Chesapeake & Ohio Railway |
| Known for | First transcontinental railroad |
| Spouses | Elizabeth Stillman Stoddard (m. ; died 1883) |
Collis Potter Huntington (October 22, 1821 – August 13, 1900)[2] was an American industrialist and railway magnate. He was one of the Big Four of western railroading (along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker) who invested in Theodore Judah's idea to build the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad.[3] Huntington helped lead
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