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Rogers (HENRY HUDDLESTONE an American)

HENRY HUDDLESTONE, an American capitalist, born at Fairhaven, Mass., in 1840. He was educated in the Fairhaven High School, and after being newspaper seller, clerk, and railroad worker, went to Pennsylvania and settled at McClintock's Wells. Here he entered the oil business and had great success in the kerosene industry. In 1870 he settled in New York and in 1874 cooperated in the establishment of the ROGERS Standard Oil Company. Eventually he became vice-president and was regarded as executive head. The money he made in oil he invested in other business, so that he became connected with the Amalgamated Copper Company, United States Steel Corporation, the National Transit Company, and other mining, railroad, and industrial undertakings. He built the Tidewater railroad, 442 miles in length, exclusively with his own capital. He left over $100,000,000. Died 1909. ican