Synonyms:
Huntington
Meaning: a city of western West Virginia on the Ohio river at the mouth of the Kanawha
Synonyms:
Huntington, Collis_Potter_Huntington
Meaning: United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900)
Synonyms:
Huntington, Samuel_Huntington
Meaning: American revolutionary leader who signed the Declaration of Independence and was president of the Continental Congress (1731-1796)
Synonyms:
Huntington, George_Huntington
Meaning: United States physician who first described Huntington's chorea
Usage examples
Never did I meet an individual who took a more kindly and sympathetic interest in our school than did Mr. Huntington.
The first time I ever saw the late Collis P. Huntington, the great railroad man, he gave me two dollars for our school.
Between these two gifts there were others of generous proportions which came every year from both Mr. and Mrs. Huntington.
And yet he did so; true, he did not actually importune Miss Huntington, but his attentions and services were all rendered under that guise and aspect which rendered them to her most repulsive.
This conversation will explain to the reader in part, the reason why Mrs. Huntington and her daughter, English subjects and in distress upon the coast, had not at once gone on board the vessel of their sovereign which lay in the harbor, and been carried upon their destination.
The idea that Miss Huntington really cared for him beyond the ordinary interest, that the circumstances of their acquaintances had caused, had not thus far been entertained by him; had this been otherwise he would doubtless have differently interpreted many agreeable tokens which she had granted him, and to which his mind now went back eagerly to recall and consider under the new phase of feeling which actuated him.