HUNTINGTON, a city of West Virginia, U.S.A., on the Ohio river, at an altitude of 564ft., just below the mouth of the Guyan dotte, near the point at which Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia meet ; the county seat of Cabell county. It is on Federal highways 52 and 6o, and is served by the Baltimore and Ohio and the Chesapeake and Ohio railways. The population was 50,177 in 1920 (93`o native white) and was 75,572 in 1930 by the Federal census. It is a rapidly growing city, with large car shops and other manufacturing industries, surrounded by a region rich in mineral resources. The factory output in 1926 was valued at $48,211,702. Bank clearings in 1927 amounted to $68,727,620, and the assessed valuation of property was $127,452,375. Huntington is the seat of a State hospital for the insane, and of Marshall college, a State teachers' college which traces its history back to an academy estab lished in 1837 and named after Chief Justice Marshall. In Ritter park stands the oldest house of the region, now used as an historical museum. The city was founded in 1871, as the western terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway, and was named after Collis P. Huntington (q.v.), the president of the road.