https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/048700https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/image/048700.jpgPortrait of Collis P. Huntington, President of the Chesapeake & Ohio RailwayundatedRailroads--West Virginia--Hinton.Counties--Summers.Portraits--H.Cities--Hinton.Railroads--Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.Huntington was the president of the C. & O. Railway when the line moved, in 1972, into what would later become Hinton and Summers County, W. Va.Huntington purchased, for the railroad, all the land where the City of Hinton now stands at public auction. He later purchased from the railroad all the land that would not be used by the railroad. West Virginia History OnView