HUNTINGTON, HENRY EDWARDS American railway executive and financier, was born at Oneonta, N.Y., on Feb. 27, 185o. He received a common school education, but his success in positions of trust offered him by his uncle, Collis P. Huntington (q.v.), railway magnate, early resulted in his promotion to executive posts of importance. He was super intendent of construction in the building of the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern line between Louisville and Memphis ; later vice-president and general manager of the Kentucky Central rail road, one of his uncle's acquisitions; and, at the same time, super visor of construction of the line between Ashland and Covington, Kentucky. He was then made assistant to the president of the en tire Southern Pacific System ; and in 1900, shortly before his uncle's death, was promoted to first vice-president. This position he continued to hold under Harriman, who succeeded to the presi dency. The will of C. P. Huntington made his widow and nephew heirs to the vast Huntington estate. H. E. Huntington began at this time to be interested in the possibilities of electric railway development in the growing cities of California. He acquired control of all the street car lines of Los Angeles and consolidated them into one system, which in time, with the rapid extensions to outlying towns and suburbs, came to be one of the largest interurban systems in the country. He acquired suburban tracts, laid out town sites, beach resorts and city additions, through all of which his street car lines were extended. He began the organ ization of the Pacific Light and Power Company to supply not only his street car lines, but the city of Los Angeles as well with power and light. Extension to other cities of California resulted in its becoming one of the largest power systems of the United States. His marriage in 1913 with the widow of C. P. Huntington united the Huntington fortune. After 1910 he devoted more and more time to the assembling of a choice art collection and a magnificent library, especially rich in rare editions of early Eng lish literature and in Americana. In 1922 the library, together with his mansion which housed it, was deeded to the American public in perpetuity, and a trust fund of $8,000,000 was established, the income to be used for further additions, research and publication. Mr. Huntington died at Philadelphia on May 23, 1927.