| 1821/10/22 |
Elizabeth Vincent Huntington, wife of William H Huntington, gives birth to a son, Collis Potter Huntington, in Harwinton, Connecticut where Huntington Brook flows into Leadmine Brook, an area known as Poverty Hollow. |
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Harwinton, CT |
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| 1834/00/00 |
After the Huntingtons became so destitute, the town selectmen remove Collis and an older brother Solon from the family home and place them with local farmers. "We were rudely moved and had to like it." CPH |
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| 1838/00/00 |
Collis Huntington earns enough money from chores and odd jobs for neighbors, to receive $3000 in credit form a New York bank to buy merchandise, and begins peddling his goods. Collis probably worked with Daniel Curtiss in Woodbury. |
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Jabez Bacon Store |
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| 1844/00/00 |
Collis Huntington partners with his older brother in Solon's hardware store (lost) on Main St in Oneonta, New York. Collis invests enough capital to be able to name the business "S and C P Huntington". |
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Oneonta Downtown Historic District |
Oneonta, NY |
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| 1844/00/00 |
Elizabeth Stoddard, of Cornwall, Connecticut, marries Collis Huntington, a distant cousin. |
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| 1849/03/00 |
The CRESCENT CITY sails from New York to Panama with goods for C P Huntington. With his cargo delayed in Panama for three months awaiting a ship bound for San Francisco, he engages in trading, realizing profits of over $3,000 during the wait. |
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Panama Canal |
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California Gold Rush |
| 1850/04/00 |
In the Spring of 1850, C P Huntington arrives in San Francisco and moves to Sacramento where he opens a store with Daniel Hammond under the firm name of "Huntington, Hammond and Co" at 54 K Street. |
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Big Four House, Sacramento |
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| 1852/12/15 |
Having rebuilt his brick store at 54 K Street, C P Huntington reopens with Daniel Hammond as partner in "Huntington, Hammond and Co". Their next door neighbor to the east is the Stanford Brothers and two doors to the west is Hopkins and Miller. |
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Big Four House, Sacramento |
Sacramento |
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| 1853/05/01 |
C P Huntington forms a partnership with Florian A Massol as "Huntington, Massol and Co". This association will survive until May of 1855 when Massol quits to form a new partnership with Henry Merwin at 84-86 J Street. |
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Old Sacramento |
Sacramento |
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| 1855/05/01 |
C P Huntington and Mark Hopkins form the business partnership of Huntington and Hopkins. Huntington will use the 2nd floor of 54 K Street as living quarters until his duties as Vice President of the Central Pacific Railroad required him to move. |
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Big Four House, Sacramento |
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| 1884/00/00 |
Henry and Arabella Huntington sell their furnished townhouse to John D Rockefeller, originally at 4 W 54th St, Manhattan, NYC. |
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Worsham-Rockefeller Master bedroom |
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts |
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| 1884/07/12 |
Arabella Worsham marries Collis Huntington in New York City |
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Marriage of Arabella Worsham and Collis Huntington |
| 1895/00/00 |
C P Huntington buys Pine Knott |
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Camp Pine Knot |
Town of Long Lake |
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| 1900/08/04 |
C P Huntington dies of heart disease at his Adirondack Camp, Pine Knot, leaving about $15 million of his $50 million to Arabella and some $25 million to his nephew Henry E Huntington. |
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Camp Pine Knot |
Town of Long Lake |
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| 1900/08/18 |
The services at the funeral of the late Collis P Huntington, at the Fifth avenue residence today, marked with simplicity, are conducted by Rev A Woodruff Halsey, of the Presbyterian Board of Missions, in the drawing room. |
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Tiffany and Co Flagship Store |
New York City |
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Funeral of the Late C P Huntington |
| 1900/08/18 |
A special train, consisting of two cars with Huntington's immediate family and his most intimate friends, leaves Grand Central station a few minutes after noon in charge of Assistant Superintendent Van Tassel. |
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Grand Central Terminal |
New York City |
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Funeral of the Late C P Huntington |
| 1900/08/18 |
The burial is strictly private, only the immediate family and its most intimate friends of the late Mr Huntington are at his interment in the Huntington mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery. |
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Woodlawn Cemetery |
New York City |
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Funeral of the Late C P Huntington |
| 1919/00/00 |
Hannah N Haviland, wife of John T Haviland, a San Francisco banker and the sister of the first wife of industrialist Collis P Huntington dies at age 94. She bequeaths $250,000 to UC for the construction of the library. |
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Haviland Hall |
Berkeley |
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