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Rh tion of a stipulated mileage. In addition to this undertaking, Mr. Huntington planned and perfected the whole California railroad system, which extends over 8.900 miles of steel track, built an Atlantic system, which, by the Southern Pacific railroad and the Chesapeake and Ohio railway, forms a continuous line 4,000 miles long from San Francisco to Newport News, and developed an aggregate of 16.900 miles of steam water-lines, including the route to China and Japan. He is president of the Newport News and Mississippi valley company, and vice-president of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific railroad companies. He resides in New York city.

HUNTINGTON, Elisha, physician, b. in Topsfield, Mass., 9 April, 1796; d. in Lowell, Mass., 10 Dec, 1865. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1815 and from Yale medical school in 1823. He practised in Lowell with great success, and was for eight years mayor of that city. He was lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in 1853, and was at one time president of the Massachusetts medical society. Dr. Huntington published addresses and a "Memoir of Prof. Elisha Bartlett " (Lowell, 1856). — His son, William Reed, clergyman, b. in Lowell, Mass., 20 Sept., 1838, was graduated at Harvard in 1859, and was temporary instructor in chemistry there in 1859-'60. He then entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, was assistant rector of Emmanuel church, Boston, in 1861-'2, rector of All Saints' church, Worcester, Mass., in 1862-'83, and in the latter year accepted a call to Grace church, New York city. Columbia gave him the degree of D. D. in 1873. He was class poet at Harvard in 1859, and Phi Beta Kappa poet there in 1870. Besides papers on liturgical revision in the United States, he has published "The Church Idea, an Essav toward Unity " (New York, 1870), and " Conditional Immortality " (1878). Among his later pamphlets is " The Book Annexed, its Critics and its Prospects " (1886).

HUNTINGTON, Elisha Mills, jurist, b. in Otsego County, N. Y., 26 March, 1806; d. in St. Paul, Minn., 26 Oct., 1862. He removed to Vigo county, Ind., in 1822 and was admitted to the bar in that state. In 1829 he was appointed by the legislature prosecuting attorney of his circuit, and in 1831 was elected a member of the legislature. On leaving the legislature after two re-elections, he was chosen president-judge of his circuit, and in 1841 was appointed commissioner of the general land-office at Washington. In May, 1842, he was appointed a judge of the U.S. district court for Indiana, which office he held until his death.

HUNTINGTON, Frederick Dan, P. E. bishop, b. in Hadley, Mass., 28 May, 1819. His father, Dan Huntington, was a graduate and tutor of Yale, and had charge of Congregational churches in Con- necticut, but subsequently became a Unitarian. He published "Personal Memoirs" (1857). The son was graduated at Amherst in 1839, and at Har- vard divinity-school in 1842. He was then or- dained pastor of the South Congregational church in Boston, and in 1855 became preacher to Harvard, and Plummer professor of Christian morals in that university, which post he held till 1860. He also served as chaplain and preacher to the Massachusetts legislature. He withdrew from the Unitarian denomination, and took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1860. He then organized the Emmanuel parish of Boston, and was its rector until he was consecrated bishop of central New York, 8 April, 1869. In 1861 he established with Dr. George M. Randall the "Church Monthly." He has contributed to various reviews and periodicals, and published many sermons and addresses. Among these are "Sermons for the People" (Boston, 1836; 9th ed., 1869); "Lessons on the Parables of our Saviour" (1856); "Sermons on Christian Living and Believing" (1860); "Lectures on Human Society as illustrating the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God" (1860); " Elim, or Hymns of Holy Refreshment" (1865); "Lessons for the Instruction of Children in the Divine Life" (1868); "Helps to a Holy Lent " (1872) ; and "Steps to a Living Faith" (1873). Bishop Huntington has edited various works, including Archbishop Whately's " Christian Morals " (1856) ; and " Memorials' of a Quiet Life " (1874). He was chosen by the house of bishops to write the " Pastoral Letter," and to read the same at the general convention of 1883 in Philadelphia. Amherst gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1887.

HUNTINGTON, Jabez, soldier, b. in Norwich, Conn., 7 Aug., 1719; d. there, 5 Oct., 1786. He was graduated at Yale in 1741, engaged in the West India trade, and amassed a fortune. After 1750 he was frequently a member of the legislature, speaker for several years, and also a member of the council. At the beginning of the Revolution he owned a large amount of shipping, and lost heavily by the capture of his vessels. During the war he was active on the committee of safety, and from September, 1776, was major-general of militia. His great exertions in the patriot cause and his heavy losses impaired his physical and mental powers, and he was thus compelled to resign his employments in 1779. &mdash; His son, Jedidiah, soldier, b. in Norwich, Conn., 4 Aug., 1743; d. in New London, Conn., 25 Sept., 1818, was graduated at Harvard in 1763. He was engaged in commercial pursuits with his father, was an active Son of Liberty, and a member of the committee of correspondence that was established at a Norwich town-meeting on 6 June, 1774. He raised a regiment in which he was made captain, joined the army at Cambridge on 26 April, 1775, and aided in repulsing the British at Danbury in April, 1776. Having been appointed brigadier-general on 12 May, 1777, he joined the main army near Philadelphia in September of that year, and in May, 1778, was ordered to Hudson river. He served in the court-martial that tried Gen. Charles Lee for misconduct at Monmouth in 1778, and in the court that was summoned to examine John André in Tappan on 29 Sept., 1780. At the close of the war he was brevetted major-general. He resumed his business, and was successively sheriff of the county, state treasurer, and delegate to the convention that adopted the constitution of the United States. He was then appointed by Washington to the post of collector of customs at New London, where he removed in 1789, and held the office for twenty-six years. He was one of the first board of foreign missions, and a zealous supporter of charitable institutions. His first wife, Faith, was a daughter of Gov. Trumbull, and his second wife was the sister of Bishop Moore of Virginia. He entertained many distinguished officers in his house, among whom were Lafayette, Steuben, and Pulaski. When Lauzun's legion was stationed at Lebanon during the winter of 1780-'1, he invited that commander and his officers to a banquet. On 10 May, 1783, at a meeting of officers, he was appointed one of a committee of four to draft a plan of organization, which resulted in their reporting on the 13th of that month the constitution of the Society of the Cincinnati. &mdash; Another son, Andrew, b. 21 June, 1745; d. 7 April, 1824, engaged in commercial pursuits, and in 1795 was a manufacturer of paper at the Falls of Norwich.