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HUNTINGTON Huntington, Elisha (1796–1865).

Elisha Huntington, Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts, lieutenant-governor of the state, and author of a memoir of the eminent (q. v.) (1856), was born in Topsfield, Massachusetts, April 9, 1796. He was the son of the Rev. Asahel Huntington, minister of that town for nearly twenty-five years, and of his wife, a daughter of Dr. Elisha Lord of Pomfret, Connecticut. Entering Dartmouth College at fifteen, he graduated in 1815 and studied medicine with Dr. Bradstreet of Newburyport, later attending the Yale Medical School and getting his M. D. there in 1823. He settled in Lowell the following year and enjoyed a large practice, soon being drawn into the public service. While Lowell was yet a town, Dr. Huntington served on the board of selectmen and the school committee. After being three times elected an alderman, he filled the office of mayor in 1839, and was re-elected seven times. Having declined to be again a candidate, the "great panic" of 1859 led the citizens to nominate him unanimously, such confidence had they in his ability to manage the city in a time of stress. For one year, 1853, he was lieutenant-governor of the state under Governor Clifford; for two years president of the MidlesexMiddlesex [sic] North District Medical Society, and in 1855–57 he presided over the Massachusetts Medical Society.

One of his last acts was to attend the fiftieth anniversary of his class at Dartmouth, even though in impaired health. He died at home, December 13, 1865.



Hupp, John Cox (1819–1908).

John Cox Hupp, skilled physician and public servant of unusual breadth of view and numerous interests, was born in Donegal, Washington County, Pennsylvania, November 24, 1819, son of John and Ann Cox Hupp. His grandfather was John Hupp, pioneer, who was killed while defending Miller's Block-House in Washington County, Pennsylvania, on Easter Sunday, 1782. His great grandfather was Colonel Isaac Cox, whose activities in the Revolutionary War are well known in western Pennsylvania.

Young Hupp was educated at West Alexander Academy and at Washington College, graduating in 1844; he studied medicine with F. J. LeMoyne and graduated at Jefferson Medical College in 1847, settling to practise in Wheeling, West Virginia, which remained his home the rest of his life. He was a founder of the medical society of the state of West Virginia; in 1870 he brought chloral hydrate to the notice of the physicians of Wheeling. His interest in education led him to make a successful effort to bring free-school privileges to the negro children of Wheeling.

He witnessed the cremation of Baron de Palm at Washington, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1876.

His writings include: "Placenta Praevia" (1863); "Vaccination and Its Protecting Powers" (1870); "Chloral in Puerperal Insanity" (1870; "Ruptured Uterus" (1874); "Encephaloid Abdominal Tumor" (1875). He wrote a "Biographical Sketch of Joseph Thoburn, M. D.," at the request of the physicians of Wheeling, in 1865; in 1870 he offered a memorial before the West Virginia Legislature, on the establishment of the office of the state geologist, and in 1877 a memorial on the establishment of a state board of health.

Dr. Hupp was physician to the Ohio County Almshouse in 1850, and in 1863 was appointed physician to the prisoners of the United States District Court; in 1864 he was physician and secretary to the Wheeling Board of Health; in 1869 he served as secretary of the Section on Practice of Medicine and Obstetrics of the American Medical Association, and was state vaccine commissioner, from the formation of the Commonwealth until 1883.

In 1853 he married Carolene Louisa, daughter of (q. v.). Dr. Frank LeMoyne Hupp, eminent physician of Wheeling, was their son.

Dr. Hupp died November 19, 1908, of senile myocarditis.



Hurd, Anson (1824–1910).

Anson Hurd, surgeon in the Civil War, was born in Twinsburg, Summit County, Ohio (the Western Reserve of Connecticut), December 27, 1824, of Revolutionary ancestry, the names Hurd, Brainard and Brooks, being prominent in New England history. He was one of fourteen children, educated at Twinsburg Academy and the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, where he received his Academic degree in 1849.

His medical studies were under Dr. William Blackstone of Athens, Ohio. In 1852 he received his M. D. from Starling Medical College, and began practice in Oxford, Indiana, whence he was sent for several terms as member of the State Legislature and was active in early public affairs. He contracted tuberculosis and in 1856, after consulting the leading