HUNTINGTON  , a

city and the county-seat of Cabell county, West Virginia . U.S.A., about 50 M . W. of Charleston, W . Va., on the S. bank of the Ohio river, just below the mouth of the Guyandotte river . Pop . (1900) 11,923, of whom 1212 were negroes ; (1910 census) 31,161 . It is served by the Baltimore & Ohio and the Chesapeake & Ohio railways, and by several lines of river steamboats . The city is the seat of Marshall College (founded in 1837; a State Normal School in 1867), which in 1907-1008 had 34 instructors and Imo students; and of the West Virginia State Asylum for the Incurable Insane; and it has a Carnegie library and a city hospital . Huntington has extensive railway car and repair shops, besides foundries and machine shops. steel rolling mills, manufactories of stoves and ranges, breweries and glass works . The value of the city's factory product in 1905 was $4,407,153, an increase of 21% over that of 1900 . .Huntington dates from 1871, when it became the western terminus of the Chesapeake & Ohio railway, was named in honour of Collis P . Huntington (1821-1900), the president of the road, and was incorporated .