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"I shall keep [Collis Huntington's] wise life as an example constantly before me." Henry Edwards Huntington, August 30, 1900
The Huntington family traced its ancestry back to colonial days in America and to England in 1273. The member of whom they were most proud was Samuel Huntington (1731-1796), governor and chief justice of Connecticut, president of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. For generations the Huntingtons had been small landowners, merchants, self-reliant men and women who worked hard to make a living and to lay some aside. When Solon Huntington, father of Henry E. Huntington, died in 1890, the estimated value of his estate was $126,180, an important sum then in an isolated country town.
Throughout Henry Huntington's lifetime, he retained a deep love for his boyhood home, Oneonta, on the Susquehanna River in upper New York State. Here Solon had opened a general store, taking his younger brother Collis into partnership. As the farming community grew, the business prospered, and soon Solon was able to invest some of his profits in land. In 1849 he was also able to equip his ambitious brother with merchandise to trade to the fortune hunters lured to the gold fields of California.
By the 1860s, Collis Huntington's California activities had expanded to that of building (along with his partners Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, and Leland Stanford, known as the "Big Four") the Central Pacific Railroad across the Sierra. At Promontory Point, Utah Territory, this miracle of engineering and Congressional backing connected with the Union Pacific over Indian lands from Omaha, the last link of the long-awaited transcontinental railroad. Vast tracts of agricultural and grazing land were opened for development.
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