Collis Potter Huntington promoter of the Central Pacific Railroad

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Collis Potter Huntington promoter of the Central Pacific Railroad

… Collis Potter Huntington (1821-1900) was raised in Connecticut and in the late 1840's he was a partner with his elder brother Solon Huntington in a dry-goods store in Oneonta NY. He already had a background of an itinerant merchant and from this he knew much of the countryside in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and even Indiana and Virginia. In 1844, the same year he started S & C.P. Huntington with his brother in Oneonta, he married Elizabeth Stoddard of Cornwall Connecticut. When the California gold rush swept over the country it did not spare …

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