Editing Collis Potter Huntington (section)

==Family relationships==
[[File:Collis Potter Huntington bust.jpg|thumb|Bust of Collis made by [[Anna Hyatt Huntington]] in the collection at The [[Mariners Museum]].]]
Collis Huntington was the son of William and Elizabeth (Vincent) Huntington; born October 22, 1821, in Harwinton, Connecticut. His siblings were:

# Mary (February 17, 1810 – March 9, 1874); married Daniel Sammis of [[Warsaw, New York]].
# Solon (January 13, 1812 – August 11, 1890); married Harriet Saunders of [[Saratoga, New York]].
# Rhoda (October 13, 1814 – May 22, 1888); married Riley Dunbar of Wolcottville.
# Phebe (September 17, 1817 – February 4, 1900); married Henry Pardee of [[Oneonta, New York]].
# Elizabeth (December 19, 1819 – 1903); married Hiram Yaker of [[Kortright, New York]].
# Collis Potter (October 22, 1821 – August 13, 1900)
# Joseph (March 23, 1823 – February 23, 1849); never married
# Susan Lovinia (August 28, 1826 – 1902); married William Porter, M.D., of [[New Haven, Connecticut]]
# [[Ellen M. H. Gates|Ellen Maria]] (August 12, 1835 – October 22, 1920); married Isaac E. Gates of [[Orange, New Jersey]]. She was known as a poet and hymn writer.

Collis Huntington married Elizabeth Stillman Stoddard (1823–1883), of [[Cornwall, Connecticut]], on September 16, 1844. She lived until 1883. They adopted her niece, [[Clara von Hatzfeldt|Clara Elizabeth Prentice]], born in Sacramento in 1860. Clara Elizabeth Prentice-Huntington (1860–1928), as she was called, married [[Franz von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg|Prince Franz Edmund Joseph Gabriel Vitus von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg]], a.k.a., Francis Hatzfeldt<ref>{{cite web|title=Prince Franz HATZFELDT & Clara Elizabeth PRENTICE-HUNTINGTON|url=http://dgmweb.net/FGS/H/HatzfeldtFranz-ClaraElizabethPrenticeHuntington.html|website=Diana, Goddess of the Hunt - for Ancestors!|access-date=August 30, 2017}}</ref> of the [[House of Hatzfeld]], [[Germany]], on October 28, 1889. They made their home at Draycot House, [[Draycot Cerne]], [[Wiltshire]], [[England]].<ref>''Hand of Fate. The History of the Longs, Wellesleys and the Draycot Estate in Wiltshire.'' Tim Couzens, 2001, OCLC 49204947</ref>

Huntington remarried on July 12, 1884, to [[Arabella Huntington|Arabella D. Worsham]] (1851–1924). She brought to the marriage her son [[Archer Milton Huntington|Archer Milton Worsham]], from her first marriage, whom Huntington adopted that year. At fourteen, he became known as Archer Milton Huntington. There were rumors that Huntington had a longer relationship with Arabella and that he was the biological father of her son. Huntington died at his [[Camp Pine Knot]], in the Adirondacks, August 13, 1900.

[[Archer M. Huntington]] became a well-known Hispanist and founded [[The Hispanic Society of America]], a museum and rare-books library dedicated to Spanish and Portuguese history, art, and culture, based in upper Manhattan, in New York City. Archer and his second wife, sculptor [[Anna Hyatt Huntington]], founded [[Brookgreen Gardens]] sculpture and botanical gardens near [[Murrells Inlet, South Carolina]]. He also founded the [[Mariners' Museum]] in Newport News, one of the largest of its kind in the world.

Huntington's nephew, [[Henry E. Huntington]] (1850–1927), was also a railway magnate and founder of the [[Huntington Library|Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens]] in [[San Marino, California]]. He was active in [[Los Angeles, California]], where he was the main force behind development of the [[Pacific Electric]] system.

He was also related to [[Clarence Huntington]], a president of the [[Virginian Railway]] who succeeded [[Urban H. Broughton]]. He was the son-in-law of the VGN's founder, industrialist [[Henry H. Rogers|Henry Huttleston Rogers]].