Herbert Fitzpatrick
( 1872 - 1962 )

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A Huntington lawyer who rose to become head of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Herbert Fitzpatrick (1872-1962) is remembered today for the key role he plsyed in establishing the Huntington Galleries ----- now the Huntington Museum of Art. A Virginia native, Fitzpatrick joined the C&O in 1895 as local counsel in Huntington. In 1923, he was made vice president and general counsel. He was C&O board chairman from 1937 to 1940. Fitzpatrick donated the land upon which the museum was built, along with his substantiaj collection of paintings, prints, English silver and Islamic prayer rugs, which became the nucleus of the museum's collection.

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