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Definition of Collis Potter Huntington
1. Noun. United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Collis Potter Huntington
Literary usage of Collis Potter Huntington
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Building the Pacific Railway: The Construction-story of America's First Iron by Edwin Legrand Sabin (1919)
"Collis Potter Huntington, in 1862 aged forty-one, had been born a Connecticut
Yankee, was a Forty- niner by the Panama route, from Oneonta, NY, ..."
2. Stories of the Great Railroads by Charles Edward Russell (1912)
"For the Gate was quickly closed and before it appeared the grim figure of Collis
Potter Huntington, one hand holding the key and the other stretched out ..."
3. Railroad Melons, Rates and Wages: A Handbook of Railroad Information by Charles Edward Russell (1922)
"For the Gate was quickly closed and before it appeared the grim figure of Collis
Potter Huntington, one hand holding the key and the other stretched out ..."
4. A Guide to the Works of Art in New York City by Florence Nightingale Levy (1916)
"The "building is dedicated to the Memory of Collis Potter Huntington," and was
the gift of his son, Archer M. Huntington, to whose personal interest is due ..."
5. Hymns Historically Famous by Nicholas Smith (1901)
"One afternoon in the winter of 1860, Mrs. Ellen Huntington Gates of Newark, New
Jersey—sister of the late Collis Potter Huntington, president of the ..."
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