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collis potter huntington

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Hun⋅ting⋅ton

[huhn-ting-tuhn]
–noun
1. Collis Potter, 1821–1900, U.S. railroad developer.
2. Samuel, 1731–96, U.S. statesman: governor of Connecticut 1786–96.
3. a city in W West Virginia, on the Ohio River. 63,684.
4. a city in NE Indiana. 16,202.
5. a male given name: from an Old English family name, meaning “hunting estate.”
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Huntington, Collis Potter 1821-1900.  
American transportation executive who built the western section of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad (completed 1869).
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