Huntington family

Huntingtons involved in American politics from the 18th & 19th centuries include

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  The signatures on the Declaration of Independence
  Samuel Huntington (Scotland, Connecticut 1731–1796), Connecticut Superior Court Judge 1773–1785, Patriot in the American Revolution, Founding Father and Signer of the Declaration of Independence, President of and Delegate to the Continental Congress from Connecticut 1776–1784, Deputy Governor of Connecticut 1784–1786, Governor of Connecticut 1786–1796. Uncle and adoptive father of Samuel H. Huntington.[3]
• Jedediah Huntington (or Jedidiah Huntington) (Norwich, Connecticut August 4, 1743 – September 25, 1818), was an American brigadier general who served under General George Washington in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he served in numerous civilian posts.
• Ebenezer Huntington (December 26, 1754 – June 17, 1834) was an officer in the Continental Army and is depicted as one of the officers of General Washington's Army in John Trumbull's Surrender of Lord Cornwallis. He served as a United States Representative from Connecticut after the war.
• Jabez Huntington (7 August 1719 – 5 October 1786) was a merchant and politician from Connecticut Colony. Jabez Huntington graduated from Yale in 1741, engaged in the West India trade, and amassed a fortune. After 1759 he was frequently a member of the legislature, speaker for several years, and also a member of the council.
• Jabaz W. Huntington (Norwich, Connecticut November 8, 1788 – November 1, 1847) was a United States Representative and Senator from Connecticut.
• Samuel H. Huntington (1765–1817), delegate to the Ohio Constitutional Convention 1802, Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court 1803–1808, Governor of Ohio 1808–1810. Nephew of and adoptive son of Samuel Huntington.[4]
• Elisha Mills Huntington (1806–1862), Indiana United States Representative 1832–1836, Indiana Circuit Court Judge 1837–1841, Judge of the U.S. District Court of Indiana 1842–1862, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1860. Descendant of Samuel Huntington.[5]
• Nathaniel Huntington, Indiana United States Representative 1827–1828. Brother of Elisha Mills Huntington.[6]
• Arria Sargent Huntington (1848-1921) the first woman elected to public office in Syracuse, New York.
• Pelatiah Webster Huntington, was a well-known political economist, author, and teacher during the late 1700s.
• Pelatiah Webster Huntington, named after the well known economist, was the founder of Huntington Bancshares, largest bank by market share in Columbus, Ohio.

Placename honors

Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull hanging in the US Capitol Rotunda featuring Ebenezer Huntington.

• The Huntington Homestead Museum,[7] Scotland, Connecticut
• Huntington, New York
• Huntington Bay, New York
• Huntington Harbor Lighthouse, New York
• Huntington Yacht Club,[8] New York
• Huntington, Massachusetts
• Huntington Avenue, after Ralph Huntington (1784–1866), in Boston, Massachusetts
• Huntington Avenue American League Baseball Grounds, Boston, Massachusetts
• Huntington, Indiana
• Huntington County, Indiana

East Meets West. The ceremony for the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869; completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Oliver Boardman Huntington and Zina Diantha Huntington pioneered and founded Utah State which created the infrastructure and conditions for their cousins Collis Potter Huntington and Henry Edward Huntington's success.

Huntingtons involved in American railroads, shipping, real estate, politics, mining, oil and extraction, arts patronage, and philanthropy since the 19th century include:

• Collis Potter Huntington (Harwinton, Connecticut 1821–1900) and Arabella Duval Huntington (Union Springs, Alabama or Richmond, Virginia c. 1850–1924) Real estate investor, philanthropist and art and jewelry collector, abolitionist and suffragette known as "America's Wealthiest Woman" during the Gilded Age; Collis Huntington was one of the Big Four, also known as "The Associates", of the First Transcontinental Railroad, the Central Pacific, and include the Southern Pacific, Chesapeake and Ohio U.S. railroads and Newport News shipping industries.[9][10] Through railroads, shipping, real estate, mining, oil, extraction, and art, rare book and jewelry collections, it is estimated that Collis and his cousin Henry amassed a fortune of between 30 and 50 billion dollars (adjusted for inflation and valuation, 2018). Collis and Arabella were abolitionists married by Henry Ward Beecher and supported Booker T. Washington through funding Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University) and Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). Upon his death, Arabella financed the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Building[11] at Tuskegee University which was dedicated to supporting one of the first programs educating black women and is still in use today.
• Henry Edward Huntington (Oneonta, NY 1850–1927) and widowed Arabella Duval Huntington (c. 1850–1924); railroad magnate, Newport News Shipbuilding, Pacific Electric Railway, California state real estate developer where he founded, developed and incorporated holdings in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Huntington Beach and Orange County; botanical gardens developer and art and rare book collector; Henry was a native of Oneonta, NY and donated his former family homestead in Oneonta to become Huntington Memorial Library[12] and park.[13] Henry and Arabella are founders of The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California which is where they are buried.[14]
• Archer Milton Huntington (1870–1955; See The Hispanic Society of America, Audubon Terrace, Mariners' Museum) Philanthropist, poet, Hispanic scholar, art collector and patron, museum and botanical gardens developer and Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876–1973) American sculptor (See Brookgreen Gardens & Atalaya Castle).[15] Archer founded and developed The Hispanic Society of America, Audubon Terrace and the Newport News Mariners' Museum projects as well as acting as a major benefactor for the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Numismatic Society. His early education was almost wholly independent, not unlike his father Collis and cousin Henry (Ed) and in early childhood he was educated through private tutors and extensive travel in Europe; he later would earn honorary degrees including a doctorate from Yale University as a Hispanic scholar and poet. Archer, with his wife Anna, built Atalaya Castle and Brookgreen Gardens, both of which were donated upon his death to the State of South Carolina. The nearly 10,000-acre parcel and two estates now comprise Huntington Beach State Park which focuses on wetland and habitat conversation.
• Helen Dinsmore Huntington Astor Hull (1893-1976); American socialite, arts patron and political hostess. Descendant of the Huntington and Dinsmore families, who had adjoining Hudson River estates, Helen Huntington married Vincent Astor in 1914 at an intimate ceremony where among the orchestra’s selections was a rendition of “O Perfect Love.” When the Astors’ 25-year marriage ended, Helen became a formidable social presence in New York. In 2004 Andre Balazs acquired her family estate The Locusts, once the setting for many of her soirees.

"The Huntington" Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California was built by Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Duval Huntington. (Exterior Main Building)

• Huntington Beach California, known as "Surf City", is home of the U.S. Open of Surfing, International Surfing Museum and the Surfer's Hall of Fame.
• In 1906 Archer Huntington sold the New York City Huntington family mansion, built by Collis and Arabella Huntington, which was located on Fifth Avenue & 57th Street to Tiffany & Company which housed the first Tiffany Flagship Store at this location.
• The artwork and architectural design details and contents of Collis and Arabella's Fifth Avenue & 57th Street family mansion were donated by Archer Huntington to Yale University and Yale University Art Gallery.[24][25]
• Harry Winston launched his career as a luxury jeweler by purchasing Arabella Huntington's jewelry collection upon her death from Archer Huntington and redesigning it. Harry Winston's creations are frequently displayed at the annual Met Gala.
• Collis Huntington is a founding member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (home of the Met Gala) and bequeathed 135 paintings comprising The Huntington Collection.
• Arabella Huntington's 4 West & 54th Street home (off of 5th Avenue), which she sold to John D. Rockefeller in 1884, is now the garden at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).
• Collis and Arabella Huntington's NYC Throgs Neck waterfront mansion and estate became Preston High School; notable alumni include Jennifer Lopez.
• Collis and Arabella Huntington purchased Camp Pine Knot, the first of the Adirondacks "Great Camps" from William West Durant; Archer Huntington donated the Great Camp Pine Knot and Camp Arbutus and approximately 15,000 acres of The Huntington Wildlife Forest to SUNY Cortland where it was renamed Camp Huntington; Camp Huntington's education mission and focus is environmental and habitat conservation and protection of the Adirondacks region.
• Collis Huntington is a founding member of the American Museum of Natural History where he funded The Huntington Expeditions for preserving Native American culture.
• The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, founded by Henry and Arabella Huntington, acquired the Burndy Library and the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) making it one of the largest history of science and technology archives in the world. The Huntington is also home to First Editions of Sir Isaac Newton's treatises and his Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles), 1687.
• The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens is home to the second largest collection of William Shakespeare folios in the United States [the Folger Shakespeare Library has the largest collection]. Henry Huntington acquired Shakespeare's First Folio (1623), along with a 1611 edition of the Hamlet soliloquy, "To Be or Not To Be", and many other Shakespeare manuscripts and memorabilia.
• American novelist, Harriet Huntington Doerr, author of Stones for Ibarra, was the grand daughter of Henry E. Huntington; she wrote the novel at age 74, and it was her debut novel.
• Robert Palmer Huntington Jr. (January 15, 1869 – March 12, 1949) American Tennis Player U.S National Championships Winner in Men's Doubles Grand Slam Tennis titles, 1891, 1892 with partner Oliver Campbell
• The Huntington Avenue American League Baseball Grounds is the full name of the baseball stadium that formerly stood in Boston, Massachusetts, and was the first home field for the Boston Red Sox (known informally as the 'Boston Americans' until 1908) from 1901–1911. The stadium, built for $35,000 (equivalent to $1.05 million in 2018), was located on what is now Northeastern University, at the time across the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad tracks from the South End Grounds, home of the Boston Braves. The stadium was the site of the first World Series game between the modern American and National leagues in 1903, and also saw the first perfect game in the modern era, thrown by Cy Young on May 5, 1904.
• We Are Marshall: a 2006 American historical drama biopic depicts the aftermath of the 1970 plane crash that killed 75 people: 37 football players on the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team, along with five coaches, two athletic trainers, the athletic director, 25 boosters, and a crew of five. The film starring Matthew McConaughey is set in Huntington, West Virginia which was founded by Collis P. Huntington.
• Hell on Wheels: Collis P. Huntington was played by Tim Guinee

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