. Leslie's history of the greater New York . has also about 20,000miles of steamship lines, includinga mail service across the PacificOcean, ])lying between San l-rancisco and Cliiua aud Ja])an. He hasbeen i)rouiiiu-utly identified with railroad building and the develop-nuMit of coal mines at \aucouver, British Columbia. He is Presidentof tlie (liiatemala Central Railroad. He is Pi-esident of tli(> SouthernPacific Comiiany, \ice-Piesident of the Central Iacific Railroad (om-pany. President of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, while he isa director of a formidable array o
. Leslie's history of the greater New York . has also about 20,000miles of steamship lines, includinga mail service across the PacificOcean, ])lying between San l-rancisco and Cliiua aud Ja])an. He hasbeen i)rouiiiu-utly identified with railroad building and the develop-nuMit of coal mines at \aucouver, British Columbia. He is Presidentof tlie (liiatemala Central Railroad. He is Pi-esident of tli(> SouthernPacific Comiiany, \ice-Piesident of the Central Iacific Railroad (om-pany. President of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, while he isa director of a formidable array of corporations embraced in the sys-tems controlled by him. He has also established at Newport News,Va., the best ai)pointed drydock and shipbuilding yards in the UnitedStates. P>orn at llaiwiutou, Litchfield County, Conn., October 22,1S21, he attended scjiool until foui-teen years of age, aud then obtainedhis freedom from his father and became a clerk. At the end of two3ears he came to New Yoi-]< City, bought goods on credit, and sold. COLUS roTTKU HUNTINGTON. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW YORK BIOGRAPHY. 377 tluiii at a l;((()(1 iiiotit. Duiiiii; the next ten velars he also did a ^oodbusiness tbrousliout tlie iSoutli and West. He oi)ene( 10,000. At Washington hesecured the Congressional acts of 1S()2 and 1S(U wliich attorded Gov-ernment aid in lands and bonds. He was successful in interestingcapitalists at New York and Poston. Then came the rival enterprise,the Union la<ific, jt
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