Huntington Hartford

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Huntington Hartford (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 owned the A&P Supermarket, which at one point had 15,000 stores in the US. When his uncles died they had no heirs so he inherited their fortune. The money also went to the John 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 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 1964 and is well known for building the unique Gallery of Modern Art at 2 Columbus Circle. In the 1960s, the International Herald Tribune wrote that he was one of the world's richest men.

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