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Show ister, and Daniel, the painter 1J is father was u farmer, with a family fam-ily of nine children, of whom Collis was the fifth. He was brought up as the average farmer's sou of his time, with many more hours of manual training train-ing thanof mental. Four mouths each year in the village school, until he was 14, was the extent of his meutal train- C. P. HUNTINGTON DEAD. FAMOUS MAGNATE SUCCUMBS TO HEART FAILURE. Uuntlnston Conceived the Idea of Buli'dinc a Transcontinental Hallway and Was Called Crazy Left a Fortune of Many Millions. J C. P. Huntington, president of the Southern Pacific Railway company, i died of heart trouble at his camp, Pine Knot, in the Adirondacks, at about I midnight Monday. Apparently well on retiring at 11 o'clock, he was taken suddenly with a ing. lie then hired out at farm work for one year, receiving 87 per month, then engaged in the mercantile business, busi-ness, and went to California in 1349 aud re-engaged in mercantile pursuits in a tent at Sacramento. lie projected the Southern Pacific railway system and amassed his great fortune through his connection with it. Wall street estimates the fortune of Mr. Huntington at from 540,000,000 to 550,000,000. ' Mr. Huntington at the time of his death was president and director of the Southern Pacific company, president presi-dent and director of the Pacific Mail Steamship company, president and director of the Southern Pacific Kail- ' way company of California, director of . the California Pacific railway, and di- I rector of the Galveston, Harrisbuig & San Antonio Railroad company, president presi-dent and director of the Guatemala Central Kailroad co npanv. and director direc-tor also in the fo.lo.viug: Gulf- West choking spell. This was common with him, and was not thought to be serious but he became worse. As soon as the seriousness of the attack at-tack was realized, a messenger was dispatched to the camp of Governor Lounsberry for a doctor, and he was 1 on hand iu half an hour. Mr. Huntington died without gaining gain-ing consciousness, not more than three-quarters three-quarters of an hour having passed between be-tween the attack and his death. Mrs. Huntington and his secretary, G. E. Miles, were at his bedside at the time of his death. Early . in the day of Monday Mr Huntington appeared to beenioving COiiS P. HUNTINGTON. ! the best of health, walking about his preserve and taking a trip on his private pri-vate steamer, the Oneida, and he remarked re-marked to his friends that he was feel-i feel-i ing unusually well. Collis Potter Huntington was born in Harrington, Conn., October 22, 1821. He is descended from the Huntingtons' of Connecticut, who were the progenitors progeni-tors of Uenjamin, the jurist; Samuel, ( the signer of the Declaration of lude- j pendence; Daniel, tutor of Yale and Congregational minister; Frederick , Daniel, the Protestant Episcopal min- Texas & Pacific Railway company, Louisiana Western Railroad company, Mexican International Railway company, com-pany, Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad and Steamship company, Newport News Light and Water com pany, Kew York, Texas & Mexican Railway company, Old Dominion Steamship company, Old Dominion Land company, Oregon and California j Railroad company, Western Telegraph company, DetroitGas company, Fuente- Coal company, and Metropolitan Trust I company of New York. I |