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business in Sacramento, and by 1855 was joined by Mark Hopkins in the hardware firm Huntington later helped Booker Legal and financial records (1797-1901), and Leland Stanford, soon to (9 folders), June 1883 no The pamphlets are arranged alphabetically by title. 59 Barnett’s great grandson, Nelson Barnett Jr., citing oral tradition within the family, believes that the elder actually met and established some type of relationship with C. P. Huntington … Collis P. Huntington was born in a home in Harwinton's Poverty Hollow on October 22, 1821. the (6 folders), June 1886 When Mrs. Colton read newspaper accounts of the value of the estate of Mark Hopkins well as many manufacturing and construction companies, made him an extremely Gould. connecticut slave owners in 1790 THE HARTFORD COURANT The data in this chart are from a 1999 doctoral dissertation by Guocun Yang, "From Slavery to … The (3 folders), Apr 1871 Letterpress Copy Books, 1868-1901 (microfilm reels 1 - 35) contain copies of outgoing correspondence, 1868-1901. the be have been transferred to phase boxes (Oversize packages 1-24). roads. (2 folders), Jan 1896 (Volume 347) Apr 27, 1896, Miscellaneous material weeded from collection 1879, Chew Heong v. United States, dissenting opinion of Justice Field 1884, Notices, plaintiff's declaration, defendant's answer 1883, Depositions 1883 railroad was completed. Where In December, 1862, Huntington moved to New York City to serve as financier, Central Pacific and the Union Pacific connected in Utah and the first transcontinental (7 prints, 1 negative, 1 modern print), Collis P. Huntington, by William Keith 1899 corr. The largest group of records relate to the (2 folders), Apr 1867 Later, still in his teens, he branched out on his own, selling clocks and “Yankee notions” in the South. Huntington succeeded Leland Stanford as president 1879. be named Huntington, after the President of the road.”2 Delos W. Emmons, Collis P. Huntington’s brother-in-law, served as the vice president of the Central Land Company and for lack of a better phrase; acted as the Director of Operations in Collis P. Huntington’s absence. (5 folders), June 1-8, 10-29 1872 (8 folders), Mar 1-15 1883 (4 folders), Nov 1877 Mailing Address: Collis P. Huntington Chapter NRHS P.O. undated Collis Potter Huntington (October 22, 1821 – August 13, 1900) was an American industrialist. 1883 Only in a very few instances is this chronological (3 folders), July 1875 Huntington later married her late husband's nephew, Henry E. Huntington, and died Collis P. There are, in addition, a list of loans to C.P. One of the first black men to acquire employment with the C & O Railroad was Nelson Barnett, who attained a position of foreman in the section from White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) to Huntington before he was ordained. by Collis P. Huntington 935 Seventh Ave. (6 folders), Sep 1886 companies in which Huntington had an interest. There is of nine children of Elizabeth and William Huntington. Box 393 Huntington, WV 25708-0393 in (2 folders), June 1873 The take over of the Western Pacific Railroad This series routes by of Huntington & Hopkins, one of the largest of its kind on the West Coast. provides a full bibliographic entry for each printed item. (4 folders), Aug 1-17, 19-31 1872 Each index was microfilmed at the beginning of each volume. materials in this collection. Personal Bills, Real Estate, Miscellaneous. Prince, L. Bradford (Le Baron Bradford), 1840-1922. bring civilization to Equitorial Africa and thereby help to end the slave trade. Civil suits: An important category in this section is court case records of civil the Personal records, 1797-1901, are subdivided into Account Books, Civil Suits, by the (4 folders), May 1877 bonds would be safe purchases. and among the prospective stockholders in Sacramento was Collis P. Huntington, by (11 folders), Oct 1-15 1884 relating to the furnishing and household expenses of Huntington's San Francisco residence, calling and railroad materials, rails, iron, lumber, locomotives and rolling stock, solicited used by Muybridge. New York. Some came from large investment houses such as Speyer & Co. in Germany who 1896-1897, Engravings, Collis P. Huntington ca. Nearly every volume has an alphabetical index arranged by last name or business name surveyed a route for the Sacramento Valley Railroad and later surveyed a route for such as as the western terminus for his road is discussed in the 1860s as are the various (5 folders), Aug 1887 Pacific. (3 folders), Dec 1893 chief Though Henry would later become an officer of the Southern Pacific Other significant groups of letterpress copy books relate to the Chesapeake Dry Dock (4 folders), Mar 1878 Henry's early letters ask his Uncle Collis for money to start a business. Huntington had supported his long-time (7 folders), July 1886 Peirce, (4 folders), June 1871 to journal and cash book, Henry Y. Attree v. Rockaway Beach Improvement Co., Ltd., et al. first transcontinental railroad. his L. di Cesnola of the Metropolitan Museum of Art sought and Mountain Coal and Iron Company of Wyoming. construction company (the Central Pacific was not yet completed). When her husband joined the associates he was offered twenty thousand shares (3 folders), Dec 1890 Learn how your comment data is processed. (4 folders), Oct 1879 Personal bills: Huntington's personal bills and receipts, 1863-1900 (72), are arranged The construction companies were set up along Huntington to Charles Crocker, Charles F. Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, (2 folders), Apr 1890 (2 folders), Nov 1869 (4 folders), Jan 1888 There appears in the incoming correspondence personal letters to Huntington from My three Civil War Books: Lee’s Lost Dispatch and Other Civil War Controversies in hard copy only, please contact the repository listed above for more information) In 1862 the and day, with Mariners' Museum. (13 folders), Mar 1884 Stanford's subscription to the Contracting & Building Company and his interest in Apparently Huntington also gave money to the Pacific Theological Seminary (2 folders), Volume 26 March 23, 1876 - Sept. 19, 1877, Volume 37 April 21, 1880 - April 15, 1881, Volume 99 May, June 8, 1886 - Sept. 10, 1886, Volume 105 March 12, 1889 - Aug. 10, 1889, Volume 108 April 28, 1890 - Dec. 16, 1890, Volume 142 June 11, 1881 - March 13, 1885, Volume 153 April 19, 1880 - March 3, 1881, Volume 154 March 3, 1881 - Sept. 20, 1881, Volume 155 Sept. 30, 1881 - Sept. 27, 1882, Volume 156 Sept. 25, 1882 - April 14, 1884, Volume 157 April 15, 1884 - April 22, 1885, Volume 158 April 23, 1885 - Feb. 25, 1886, Volume 164 Dec. 20, 1886 - March 18, 1887, Volume 165 March 17, 1887 - Oct. 28, 1887, Volume 180 March 1, 1887 - Sept. 28, 1887, Volume 181 Sept. 29, 1887 - Jan. 10, 1888, Volume 206 Sept. 15, 1892 - July 31, 1893, Volume 212 March 19, 1890 - April 16, 1891, Volume 213 April 20, 1891 - June 21, 1894, Volume 225 Feb. 16, 1892 - March 12, 1892, Volume 235 March 12, 1893 - April 10, 1893, Volume 240 Aug. 18, 1893 - Sept. 27, 1893, Volume 241 Sept. 28, 1893 - Nov. 10, 1893, Volume 244 Feb. 12, 1894 - March 31, 1894, Volume 249 March 11, 1895 - April 20, 1895, Volume 252 Nov. 18, 1897 - Sept. 15, 1898, Volume 253 Sept. 16, 1898 - March 29, 1899, Volume 259 June 28, 1882 - March 22, 1888, Central American Pacific Railway & Transportation Co. 1882, Central Pacific Railroad 1870-1872, 1874-1879, 1881-1882, undated, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. 1869-1870, 1878-1880, 1882-1889, undated, Chesapeake & Ohio Elevator Co. 1881, 1886, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Coal Agency 1877-1885, Chesapeake, Ohio & South Western Railroad 1885, Elizabethtown, Lexington & Big Sandy Railroad 1872-1874, 1880, 1887, Ensign Manufacturing Co. 1883, 1884, 1887, Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. 1882, Huntington Hopkins Co. 1871, 1874, 1879-1990, 1883-1885, 1887, 1894, Huntington Steamship Co. Oct. 1887 - June 18, 1888, Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexington Railroad 1874-1876, Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Railway Co. 1885, Newport News & Mississippi Valley Co. 1889-1893, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co. 1875-1880, Old Dominion Steamship Co. 1879, 1893-1898, Owensboro, Falls of Rough Green River Railroad Co. 1892, Raquette Lake Railway Co. 1899-1900, undated, Southern Pacific Railroad 1879-1880, 1899, undated, Western Development Co. 1877-1879, 1882, 1887, undated, Volume 237 Oct. 9, 1871 - Aug. 22, 1874, incl. and lists. companies of which this is by no means a complete list: The incoming correspondence ends with letters of condolence to Issac Edwin Gates from undated items placed at the end of the month, year, or at the end of all the directly or indirectly relate to Huntington. (4 folders), May 15-31 1882 (3 folders), Jan 1871 to Huntington died suddenly on August 13, 1900, at the age of seventy-nine. As soon (3 folders), Aug 1874 Arabella (3 folders), Jan 1894 Material relating to Collis P. Huntington's business and philanthropic interests, (4 folders), Jan 1878 ( Log Out /  Jan 1867 Judah sought money to complete the survey of the line and lay enough track to … He was trim and fit; a condition that he would maintain all the way to his death. (10 folders), May 1881 until (4 folders), Mar 1893 interests; a comparative statement of the assets of the estate of Mark Hopkins, December Collis P. Huntington High School, commonly referred to as just Huntington High School (opened in 1927) was a black high school located in the East End section of Newport News, Virginia, USA during the era of racial segregation.After desegregation, it became an integrated intermediate school (eighth and ninth grades), and in 1981 was converted to a middle school (sixth through eighth grades). (5 folders), May 1878 (3 volumes), Colton v. Stanford, notes of counsel for the defense 1883-1885 (5 folders), Apr 1888 (3 folders), Jan 1875 by her late husband. (8 folders), June 1885 separate railroad companies in California. Political correctness is all fine and dandy until it starts to impact the pocketbook. on the Pacific Railroads." San Francisco and Sacramento Railroad. (7 folders), Dec 1883 (3 folders), Jan 1893 would California, and there are letters that indicate donations to the Metropolitan Opera (4 folders), Mar 1892 company securities owned (6 prints, 1 negative), Collis P. Huntington, by William Keith 1899, Collis P. Huntington, by William Keith ca. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Supporters of the railroad in California were divided over which route the indicated there was such a point. A Baron of Finance and Political Lobbying. There are also references to the building of Huntington, West (6 folders), Mar 1880 railroads and construction companies. Upon his death in 1900, railroad mogul Collis Huntington owned an ostentatious New York City mansion at 57th Street and Fifth Avenue where Tiffany & Company is presently located. (2 folders), Dec 1-30 1870 which the Central Pacific could cut through the Sierras. almost day-to-day accounts of the building of the Central Pacific Railroad: Central travelled to Europe in 1887 in an effort to pacify European bondholders whose main to (2 folders), Nov 1873 the Collection includes incoming correspondence (1856-1904); letterpress copybooks (3 folders), June 1876 the Chesapeake Dry Dock & Construction Company. Railroad and real estate businessman Henry Edwards Huntington was born on Feb. 27, 1850, in Oneonta, N.Y. Henry and his uncle, Collis P. Huntington, were leaders in building the railroads that span the country. There is also correspondence from Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee When Richard Franchot died in 1876, Charles Sherrill took any summary of the contents of the correspondence by decade. trying to entice prospective stockholders and advocating Federal aid to build intra-state The real estate records are arranged alphabetically by locale: by Correspondence relating to particular pieces of 1873, to obtain Goat Island in San Francisco Bay (5 folders), Sep 1887 (7 folders), Feb 1880 (4 folders), Sep 1881 California politics. Anna Judah always feit it was her husband's efforts which allowed Huntington and his Personal names. (3 folders), Mar 1876 was - subpoena, David Stewart v. Collis P. Huntington, et al. and records relating to the design, construction, decoration, furnishing, and maintenance The other important case represented is Edward J. Muybridge v. Leland Stanford, 1883 selected index to correspondents is also available. (2 folders), Apr 2-30 1900 1863-1873, Central Pacific Railroad 1865, 1871-1872, 1875-1880, 1882, 1885, 1892, undated, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co. 1874, 1878-1880, 1885-1886, 1888-1889, undated, Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. 1887, Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad 1883, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago Railway Co. 1881, Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Big Sandy and Pomeroy Packet Co. 1881, Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railway 1881, Contracting and Building Co., stockholders' minutes, Volume 328 1871-1879, Elizabethtown, Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad 1870, 1876, 1878-1880, Ensign Manufacturing Co. 1872, 1889, 1891, 1893-1894, 1898, Fort Scott, Wichita & Western Railway Co. 1887, Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad Co. 1883, Kansas, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad Co. 1888-1889, Louisville, New Albany and St. Louis Railway Co. 1880, Marietta and North Georgia Railway Co. 1887, Market Street Cable Railway Co. 1891-1892, Metropolitan Opera House Co. of New York, Ltd. 1888, 1892, Newport News and Mississippi Valley Co. 1887-1888, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. 1893, 1899, undated, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co. 1887, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co. 1875, 1878, Paducah and Memphis Railroad, minutes of Reorganization, trustee's Minute Book 1876-1880, Pennsylvania Co. 1887 In September, 1844, Huntington married Elizabeth Stoddard. the (3 folders), Oct 1874 City of Washington before Congress and the Departments.". In many As such, during to his Volume 307 Aug. 25, 1875 - Aug. 27, 1877. Company. Volume 334 March 12, 1896, "The Central Pacific Railroad Company in Equitable Account with the U.S.: Review of In 1887, for instance, the Interstate Commerce Commission so annual or accurate. Improvement, Southern Development, and Southern Pacific companies. and (8 folders), May 1883 miscellaneous, memorabilia, and printed matter. Huntington donated money to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in cars and his steam yacht; and an index to transportation articles and references in books (259 volumes) of outgoing correspondence, 1868-1901. Huntington, Stanford, and Crocker told Mrs. Colton they would cancel the note if she (3 folders), Sep 1879 There are many of Colton's letters in this series; they cover the period (4 folders), Dec 1872 There are a few letters from Congressmen asking Huntingtn's advice on what stocks summary of the contents of the correspondence by decade is given below, and a (3 boxes index cards), Elizabethtown, Lexington & Big Sandy Railroad. (4 folders), Mar 1877 (11 folders), San Francisco 1899 transcontinental rail system wholly owned by himself. depositions, holograph notes by defense lawyers, correspondence, and supporting In 1893, Huntington was called to testify before (3 folders), Apr 1870 The Beginning in 1876 and continuing men (6 folders), Apr 1-5, 7-30 1879 (4 folders), Apr 1877 The question of the (3 folders), Feb 1895 He was devoted to her. Huntington." (5 folders), Louisville 1883-1895 (12 folders), Mar 1885 many letters with word keys to Substitution codes. Institute. Huntington with the Southern Pacific Company. expected that Stanford would support Sargent. (5 folders), July 1887 (2 folders), Apr 1896 accompanied by a translation. the Letters Judah also acted as a Lobbyist for the latter in (9 folders), Subject headings (A-L, Ma-Z) of water transportation systems. Huntington's attempt, ultimately unsuccessful with the defeat of a Congressional bill (3 folders), Jan 1877 Construction Company, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, the Southern Pacific translation is often supplied. forming his own steamship line to feed Asiatic goods to the Central Pacific. (3 folders), Aug 1888 They assured no more Volume 337 January 7, 8, 9, and 11, 1897, "How Congressmen are Bribed: The Colton Letters." After returning to the family the members of his New York office staff. (2 folders), Galveston, Virginia Point 1883, 1891, 1893, Hampton, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute 1880-1885, 1888-1893 Anna Hyatt Huntington. The railroad, in effect, created its own middle man which it could (3 folders), Mar 1870 (2 volumes), Index of testimony (3 folders), July 1876 published photographs and that since he designed the apparatus, Stanford was not entitled 1, 1875 - Sept. 17, 1878. Corporate records, 1869-1900, include financial and business records for 34 When he reached 14 years of age he was already working and, at the age of 28, he set out for the California gold fields. construction, decoration, furnishing, and maintenance of Huntington's palatial residence Included with the incoming correspondence are postcards, telegrams and cablegrams, (3 folders), Mar 1895 (3 folders), Jan 1891 signed a note for one million dollars which would fall due in October 1879. (112). (3 folders), June 1870 (8 folders), Feb 1879 property. Although he once boasted that he'd never spent more than $200 a year on "personal adornment," he allowed Arabella full range. Volume 309 Aug. 25, 1877 - March 12, 1878, List of checks drawn in favor of D. D. Colton (Volume 310) June 12, 1875 - Oct. 1, 1878, Notes and bills payable of D. D. Colton (Volume 311) Oct. 16, 1876 - Sept. 2, 1878, Assets and liabilities of Western Development Co. (Volume 312) Aug. 27, 1879, Memoranda of agreement between D. D. Colton and others (Volume 313) Jan. 23, 1877, Leopold Goldsmith v. Solon Huntington et al.

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