HUNTINGTON, COLLIS POTTER American railway builder, was born at Harwinton, Conn., on Oct. 22, 1821. At the age of 28, he left a prosperous general merchandise business in which he had been associated with his brother at Oneonta, N.Y., and, with $1,200 capital, set out for the California gold fields. He commenced business in Sacramento, and soon associated himself with Mark Hopkins in a hardware store. Huntington was early an active advocate of an overland railway and in 1861, together with Hopkins, Stanford and the Crocker brothers, he succeeded in getting the Central Pacific R.R. of California incorporated. Huntington was sent east as fiscal agent and was able to secure from the Government not only permission, but grants of land and financial aid to construct a line from the Pacific coast to the point where it would meet the Union Pacific. He sold the bonds, managed the finances and acted as purchasing agent until the line was completed. He then turned his attention to the building of the Southern Pacific, plan ning and completing the entire line, which at his death comprised 9,60o m. of track, besides 5,000 m. of steamship lines. He next took over the Chesapeake and Ohio, long unprofitable, and by operating it in connection with his Southern Pacific system and extending its eastern terminus from Richmond to the seaboard at Newport News, Va., he made it a paying road. By 1890, however, Huntington had sold his interests east of the Mississippi in order to devote his whole attention to the Southern Pacific. His death occurred on Aug. 13, 1900, at his summer camp in the Adirondack mountains.