Princess Clara von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg was an American heiress and member of the Huntington family who married into the princely House of Hatzfeld.
Clara von Hatzfeldt in 1897
Four American women with entries in the Almanach de Gotha, 1904.
Photograph of her husband, Prince Franz von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg, taken to celebrate winning the 1906 Grand National.
33 Grosvenor Street, Mayfair, June 2023, Princess Clara's residence in 1912
Collis Potter Huntington was an American industrialist and railway magnate. He was one of the Big Four of western railroading who invested in Theodore Judah's idea to build the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. Huntington helped lead and develop other major interstate lines, such as the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O), which he was recruited to help complete. The C&O, completed in 1873, fulfilled a long-held dream of Virginians of a rail link from the James River at Richmond to the Ohio River Valley. The new railroad facilities adjacent to the river there resulted in expansion of the former small town of Guyandotte, West Virginia into part of a new city which was named Huntington in his honor.
Collis P. Huntington, c. 1872 by Stephen W. Shaw
CSX (the former C&O Railway) Huntington Division Headquarters, with a statue of Collis P. Huntington by Gutzon Borglum in the foreground.
Share of the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad Company, issued 18 August 1882, signed by Huntington
Huntington in later life.