GEORGE HUNTINGTON HARTFORD
George Huntington Hartford II
Born|April 18 1911 (1911-04-18) (age 96)
United States
George Huntington Hartford II (born April 18, 1911) is an heir to the Great
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company fortune. His grandfather George Huntington
Hartford and his uncles John Hartford and George L. Hartford privately owned the
A&P Supermarket, which at one point had 16,000 stores in the US. and was the
largest retail empire in the world. When his uncles died they had no heirs so he
inherited their fortune. The money also went to the John A. Hartford Foundation,
which had $597 million as of 2004. In the 1950s the A&P was the world's largest
grocer and, next to General Motors, A&P sold more goods than any other company
in the world.
Huntington was the original owner and developer of Paradise Island in the
Bahamas, which was originally called Hog Island. He got the Gambling License for
Paradise Island but was told by the Minister of Tourism Sir Stafford Sands that
to get it he would have to give up control of the island. He built the Ocean
Club on the island from the unassembled stones of a monastery that William
Randolph Hearst had in a warehouse in Florida.
He published a magazine called Show from 1961 to 1972 and is well known for
building the unique Gallery of Modern Art at 2 Columbus Circle. He thought of an
idea to get oil from rock (mainly in Western Colorado) so he founded Oil Shale
corporation with Herbert Linden and set up the Denver Research Institute at the
University of Denver to research it as an alternate way to get oil. He made
deals with Standard Oil and Atlantic Richfield for Oil Shale. He was largest
stockholder of Oil Shale corporation. Oil Shale became Tosco which is owned by
ConocoPhillips and is worth billions today.
George Huntington Hartford II
Born|April 18 1911 (1911-04-18) (age 96)
United States
George Huntington Hartford II (born April 18, 1911) is an heir to the Great
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company fortune. His grandfather George Huntington
Hartford and his uncles John Hartford and George L. Hartford privately owned the
A&P Supermarket, which at one point had 16,000 stores in the US. and was the
largest retail empire in the world. When his uncles died they had no heirs so he
inherited their fortune. The money also went to the John A. Hartford Foundation,
which had $597 million as of 2004. In the 1950s the A&P was the world's largest
grocer and, next to General Motors, A&P sold more goods than any other company
in the world.
Huntington was the original owner and developer of Paradise Island in the
Bahamas, which was originally called Hog Island. He got the Gambling License for
Paradise Island but was told by the Minister of Tourism Sir Stafford Sands that
to get it he would have to give up control of the island. He built the Ocean
Club on the island from the unassembled stones of a monastery that William
Randolph Hearst had in a warehouse in Florida.
He published a magazine called Show from 1961 to 1972 and is well known for
building the unique Gallery of Modern Art at 2 Columbus Circle. He thought of an
idea to get oil from rock (mainly in Western Colorado) so he founded Oil Shale
corporation with Herbert Linden and set up the Denver Research Institute at the
University of Denver to research it as an alternate way to get oil. He made
deals with Standard Oil and Atlantic Richfield for Oil Shale. He was largest
stockholder of Oil Shale corporation. Oil Shale became Tosco which is owned by
ConocoPhillips and is worth billions today.