Collis P. Huntington signed Chesapeake and Ohio Grain Elevator Co - 1882 dated Autograph Bond

Collis P. Huntington signed Chesapeake and Ohio Grain Elevator Co 1882 dated Autograph Bond.

Collis Potter Huntington (October 22, 1821 – August 13, 1900) was a prominent American industrialist and railway tycoon. He was a key member of the Big Four in western railroading, alongside Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker, who supported Theodore Judah's vision of constructing the Central Pacific Railroad, a crucial segment of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. Huntington played a significant role in the establishment and advancement of other important interstate rail lines, including the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O), which he was brought in to help finalize. The C&O, completed in 1873, realized a long-cherished aspiration of Virginians for a rail connection from the James River at Richmond to the Ohio River Valley. The new railway infrastructure near the river contributed to the transformation of the previously small town of Guyandotte, West Virginia, into a burgeoning city named Huntington in his honor.