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Noun: Huntington  hún-ting-tun
  1. United States railway executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railway (1821-1900)
    - Collis Potter Huntington
     
  2. A city of western West Virginia on the Ohio river at the mouth of the Kanawha
     
  3. United States physician who first described Huntington's chorea
    - George Huntington
     
  4. American revolutionary leader who signed the Declaration of Independence and was president of the Continental Congress (1731-1796)
    - Samuel Huntington

Type of: American Revolutionary leader, businessman, city, doc [informal], doctor, Dr., man of affairs, MD, medico [informal], metropolis, physician, urban center [US], urban centre [Brit, Cdn]

Part of: Mountain State, W.V., West Virginia, WV

Encyclopedia: Huntington, Robert