Los Angeles-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Huntington, Howard Edward 1876 - March 27, 1922
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Page 67
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     HOWARD EDWARD HUNTINGTON. In all of the relations of his earnest and 
loyal life Howard Edward Huntington manifested the fine sense of personal 
stewardship that stands indicative of sterling character and of deep 
appreciation of the relative values in the involved scheme of human thought 
and action. He well upheld the high honors of the family name and by very 
virtue of his personality he won to himself hosts of friends. The death of 
this representative California citizen and business man occurred at his 
beautiful Oak Knoll home in Los Angeles County, March 27, 1922. He had entered 
into a business career along lines similar to those that had been marked by 
the great achievement of his father, and by his own ability and well ordered 
efforts had risen to high executive position prior to his thirtieth birthday 
anniversary. At the time of his death he was vice president of the Los Angeles 
Railway Corporation, and a director of the many and important industrial and 
business corporations with which his father is associated.

     Mr. Huntington was born at St. Albans, West Virginia, in 1876, son of 
Henry E. and Mary (Prentice) Huntington. In his youth he was afforded the best 
of educational advantages. Mr. Huntington came with the family to California, 
and in this state his business activities were largely centered throughout his 
entire active career. In 1894, within a short time after he had completed his 
studies in Harvard University, he became associated with railroad interests by 
taking the executive position afforded to him by Epes Randolph, founder of the 
Southern Pacific Railway of Mexico. He remained with Mr. Randolph several 
years, and thereafter maintained his residence in San Francisco for some time. 
In 1904 Mr. Huntington accepted the position of assistant to John A. Muir, 
general manager of the Los Angeles Railway Corporation, and after the death of 
Mr. Muir, which occurred in that same year, Mr. Huntington continued his 
service, with greatly increased executive responsibilities. In 1915 he 
succeeded Mr. Muir as general manager of this important corporation, and he 
soon afterward became a director and the vice president of the corporation, 
which controls the great street railway and many of the interurban lines of 
Los Angeles. Concerning his activities in this connection the following record 
has been given: "Five or six years later, due to his zealous and untiring work 
in building up the the city's street railway system, Mr. Huntington suffered a 
nervous breakdown and was compelled to resign as general manager. He continued 
as vice president and a director of the railway company, being very active in 
building up the corporation, but he devoted more time to his own accumulating 
interests."

     Mr. Huntington proved a valued coadjutor of his father in connection with 
the management of the latter's many large and varied capitalistic interests, 
and a signal fidelity and loyalty characterized his course in all of the 
relations of his life. He was generous and considerate, he had naught of 
ostentation, and, with his appreciation of the real values of life, he was the 
true friend of humanity. He found many avenues along which to direct his 
service of human helpfulness,, and he won friends among the lowly and obscure 
as well as among those of high estate.

     In the year 1905 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Huntington and Miss 
Leslie T. Green, of Berkeley, California, and she survives him, as do also 
their six children: Elizabeth H., Margaret, Harriet G., Howard Edward, Jr., 
Leslie Alice and Henry Edward II.

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