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Collis was born October 22, 1821 and died August 12, 1900 . American railroad magnate who promoted the Central Pacific Railroad's extension across the west making possible the first transcontinental railroad in 1869. Huntington was born into a poor family , he worked as an itinerant peddler and became a prosperous merchant in Oneonta . In the late 1850s he became interested in a plan to link California with the eastern United States by rail.  Huntington actively seeking it, an opportunity arose to expand his rail construction ambitions to east of the Mississippi.  Attempting to raise capital to complete the Chesapeake and Ohio as a trunk line between Chesapeake Bay and the Ohio River, its promoters looked to Harvey Fisk and Alfrederick Smith Hatch, New York .
source; http://www.anb.org/articles/10/10-00841.html

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John Diedrich Spreckels was born in Charleston, South Carolina, August 16th, 1853. His family moved to New York and then to San Francisco where he grew up and  He studied at Oakland College and then in Hanover, Germany, where he studied chemistry and mechanical engineering in the Polytechnic College until 1872.  In 1876 he went to the Hawaiian Islands, where he worked in his father’s sugar business. John D. Spreckels then established his own shipping enterprise in 1880 and became very wealthy in his own right. He employed thousands of people and at one time he paid 10% of all the property taxes in San Diego County. Spreckels was president of several companies, including the Oceanic Steamship Company.
Source ; http://www.sandiegohistory.org/archives/biographysubject/spreckels/

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Charles Hinde was born July 12,1832 . Before his fame Charles was a clerk on a boat whose route stretched from St. Louis, Missouri, to St. Paul, Minnesota. He was raised as a Methodist, and his father was a circuit preacher for the church. His only had one child named Camilla who sadly  died when she was just 13.  In the late 1880s Hinde was invited to San Diego by his close friend E. S. Babcock to invest in and run several businesses, including the Hotel del Coronado and the Spreckels Brothers Commercial Company with John D. Spreckels.
source ; http://www.outlived.org/person.php?id=66973

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John was born on May 8, 1855 .  He was also raised in what is now West Chicago, Illinois . John was known as "Bet-a-Million " Gates, American gilded Age Industrialist , who was a pioneer promoter of barbed wires.  The stunt was a success, and he immediately sold hundreds of miles of wire. With $8,000, he and a partner launched their own wire plant. Gates bought out his partner in 1880 and began the Southern Wire Co.
source; https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Warne-Gates

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Leland Stanford was born March 9, 1824, in Watervliet , New York . He is remembered for being a part of the "Big Four" in financing the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad . His early years he studied and practiced law , much of his life after the California Gold Rush hit in 1849 . 1885-1893 he severed in senate . In 1885 he found ed Stanford University.
source ;  http://www.american-rails.com/leland-stanford.html