HUNTINGTON
HUNTINGTON
not engage in mining or in speculation in
mining stock. In 1860, when the necessity for a
transcontinental railroad became apparent, and
the only question to be solved was the possibility
of crossing the Sierra Nevada, Mr. Huntington
agreed %vith Theodore D. Judah, a skilful civil
engineer, to raise the funds with which to make
the survey across the mountains, both men hav-
ing faith in the success of the route proposed
by Mr. Judah. Through Mr. Huntington's repre-
sentations made to Charles Ci'ocker, Leiand Stan-
ford and Mark Hopkins, the fund was raised, and
the Central Pacific Railroad Com^iany of Califor-
nia was organized in 1861, with a capital of
$8,500,000, with Mr. Stanford as president, Mr.
Huntington as vice-president and Mr. Hopkins
as treasurer. With Mr. Judah, Mr. Huntington
visited Washington, D.C., and obtained from
congress authority to build a railroad from the
navigable waters of the Sacramento river east-
ward to the Union Pacific railroad. Tlie go\ern-
ment conceded to the company every alternate
square mile of the public lands througli a strip
extending ten miles on each side of the railroad,
and a loan of six per cent, thirty-year bonds of
the United States, to the extent of $32,000 to
$48,000. for every mile of road built. Wilh this
franchise secured, Mr. Huntington telegraphed
to California : " We have drawn the elephant,
now let us see if we can harness him." He
offered §1,500,000 of the bonds at par for cash, and
after making himself and his associates respon-
sible for the whole amount, he succeeded in ob-
taining the money. As vice-president and prac-
tical manager, he built the first, say, fifty miles
of the road. It was not the government sub-
sidy, but the private fortunes of C. P. Huntington
and his associates, that secured the first fifty
miles of the first transcontinental railroad, on
which the government then held the first mort-
gage. He afterward controlled and operated, as
president, or chief head, the Southern Pacific
system, including the Central Pacific, the Chesa-
peake & Ohio, the Chesapeake, Ohio & South-
western, the Kentucky Central, the Louisville,
New Orleans & Texas, and many other lines of
railroad, including the Mexican International
R. R., and the Guatemala Central R. R., a total
of 8900 miles of steel track lines. He also be-
came largely interested in steamship lines to New-
port News, Va., to Brazil, to China and to Japan,
covering 16,900 miles of steam water lines, and
founded at Newport News, a prosperous city,
where he established a great shipyai-d. He was
a fellow of the American Society of Civil En-
gineers. He was twice married : first, in 1844, to
Elizabeth C. Stoddard, of Litchfield, Conn., who
died in 1883 ; and secondly, July 13, 1884, to
Mrs. Arabella D. Worsham, of New York city.
In 1897 he gave to the Metropolitan Museum of
Art a portrait of George Washington, jiaintcd by
Charles Wilson Peale ; and in 1898 Mrs. Hunting-
ton presented to the Normal and Industrial insti-
tute, Tuskegee, Ala., the sum of $10,000 for a
girls' dormitory. Mr. Huntington erected a
mansion on Fifth avenue, New York city, which,
with the picture gallery, was, at the time of his
death, valued at about $3,000,000 ; a country
home at Tliroggs Neck, N.Y. ; a mansion in San
Francisco, Cal., and an ample camp in the moun-
tains of northern New York. He also erected, in
1885, a massive granite chapel at a cost of
$60,000, in his native town, and presented it to
the Congregational church of Harwinton, as a
memorial to his mother, who had been a member
of that church. He also caused to be erected in
AVoodlawn cemetery. New York city, at a cost
of over $100,000, a mausoleum, no single stone in
the structure, it is said, weighing less than
eighteen tons. . His nephew, Henry Edwards
Huntington, was at the time of his uncle's death
first vice-president of the Southern Pacific rail-
way. Mr. Huntington bequeathed his collection
of pictures to the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
the bequest to take effect after the death of his
widow and of his adopted son, Archer M. Hunting-
ton. He bequeathed his New York residence to
Mrs. Huntington for life, at lier death to Arclier
M. Huntington absolutely, or in default of issue
by him, to Yale university absolutely. This was
his only bequest to the cause of higher edu-
cation, as he frequently expressed his regret at
the tendency to the increase of higher education
for the masses at the expense of valuable time
which should be devoted to learning practical
business methods. His otlier public bequests
were $100,000 to the Hampton Normal and Agri-
cultural institute, Hampton, Ya., for the practi-
cal education of the Negro and Indian youtlis,
and $25,000 to the Cliapin Home, New York
city. At the time of liis death his fortune was
estimated at from $50,000,000 to $80,000,000.
Mr. Huntington died suddenly at Pine Knot
Camp, Raquette Lake, N.Y., Aug. 13, 1900.
HUNTINGTON, Daniel, painter, was born in New York city, Oct. 14, 1816 ; son of Benjamin and Faith Trumbull (Huntington) Huntington ; grandson of Benjamin (1736-1800) and Anne (Huntington) Huntington and of Gen. Jedidiah (1743-1818) and Ann (Moore) Huntington, and a descendant of Simon and Margaret (Baret) Huntington, the Puritan immigrants who left Norwich, England, for America in 1633, Simon dy- ing at sea and Margaret and her children settling in Massachusetts Bay colony. He was graduated at Hamilton college in 1836, and while an under- graduate he painted his first picture, " Ichabod Crane Flogging a Scholar." He studied art under
