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Rh  in 1762. On 29 June, 1763, he became pastor of a Congregational church in Coventry, where he remained till his death. He received the degree of D.D. from Dartmouth in 1780, when he was made a trustee, serving till 1788. He inculcated the doctrine of universal salvation, and wrote many sermons and addresses, among which were an “Address to his Anabaptist Brethren” (1783); and “Thoughts on the Atonement of Christ” (1791). He left a work in manuscript entitled “Calvinism Improved,” which was published in 1796. - Joseph's son, Samuel, governor of Ohio, b. in Coventry, Conn., 4 Oct., 1765; d. in Painesville, Ohio, 8 June, 1817, was adopted and educated by his uncle Samuel, and was graduated at Yale in 1785. He was admitted to the bar in Norwich in 1793, and removed to Cleveland in 1801, after which he removed to Painesville in 1805. He was a judge of the court of common pleas in 1802-'03, of the superior court in 1803, and afterward chief justice. He was a member of the first constitutional convention of Ohio in 1802, a senator in its first legislature, and served as speaker. He was governor of Ohio from 1808 till 1810. Gov. Huntington was one of the original proprietors of Fairport, founded in 1812. He held the office of district paymaster with the rank of colonel from 1812 till 1814.

HUNTINGTON, William Henry, philanthropist, b. in Norwich, Conn., 30 May, 1820 ; d. in 'aris, France, 1 Oct., 1885. He went to Europe in 1858, and was correspondent of the New York " Tribune " for twenty years. He was the friend of Louis Blanc, Clemenceau, and other noted French- men, was fond of art, and among the first to recog- nize new talent. Mr. Huntington gave away a large part of his income in private charities, and voluntarily remained in Paris during the siege of 1870-'l to relieve the suffering and poor in his own quarter. Clemenceau, who was at this time mayor of Montmartre, wrote, " During the long months of the siege, not a week passed that Hunt- ington did not visit the mayor with his hands full of gold and bank-notes, to be used in the best in- terests of France and of the republic. The sole condition of his gifts was that his name should be kept absolutely secret." He bequeathed a large collection of miniatures, bronzes, and rare steel en- gravings of Franklin, Lafayette, and Washington to the Metropolitan museum of art in New York.

'HUNTLEY, Elias Hewitt, clergyman, b. in Elmira, N. Y., 19 April, 1840. He was graduated at Genesee in 1866, and in 1866 entered the minis- try of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1867 he was sent to Nunda circuit, after which he was for six months professor of ancient languages in Genesee Wesleyan seminary. He then was sent to Wisconsin, and, after serving as presiding elder of the Madison district, was president of Lawrence university from 1879 till 1883, when he resigned to become pastor of the Metropolitan church in Wash- ington, D. C. In 1883 he was transferred to the Baltimore conference, and also elected chaplain of the U. S. senate, which office he held till 1886. He was a delegate to the Oecumenical Methodist con- ference, which met in London, England, in 1881. He received the degree of D. D. from East Tennes- see Wesleyan university in 1879, and from the Grant memorial university in 1886. In 1879 the University of Iowa gave him the degree of LL. D.

HUNTON, Eppa, soldier, b. in Fauquier county, Va., 23 Sept., 1823. His early education was lim- ited. He studied and practised law, and was com- monwealth attorney for Prince William countv from 1849 till 1862. He was elected to the Virginia convention of 1861, and after serving through its first session entered the Confederate army as colo- nel of the 8th Virginia infantry. After the battle of Gettysburg he was promoted and served through the rest of the war as brigadier-general. He was captured at Sailor's Creek, 6 April, 1865, and im- prisoned in Fort Warren, but was released in July. 1865. Gen. Hunton was elected a representative to congress as a Democrat in 1873, and re-elected to the three succeeding congresses. He was a mem- ber of the joint committee that formed the elec- toral bill in the 44th congress, and one of the elec- toral commission of 1876-'7.

HUNTON, Logan, lawyer, b. in Albemarle county, Va., in 1806 ; d. in St. Louis county, Mo., in 1880. His father went to Kentucky about 1818, and settled in Lincoln county. The son was edu- cated at Centre and Transylvania universities, studied law, and practised in Stanford. He served in the legislature and hela other public offices in Kentucky, and in 1838 removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he practised with success. He was a dele- gate to the Harrisburg Whig convention in 1840, and on his return engaged actively in the presi- dential canvass in favor of Gen. Harrison. In 1844 he went to New Orleans, where he served as U. S. district attorney, to which office he was appointed by President Taylor. He subsequently returned to St. Louis, and was active in the councils of the Presbyterian church, serving also as a member of the board of trustees of Westminster college.

HUON HE PENANSTER, Charles Henry, French botanist, b. in Dinan in 1727 ; d. in Santo Domingo in 1771. He was descended from an ancient family of Brittany, and left the French navy in 1751 to devote himself to botany. He had seen in New Spain the cochineal insect, of which the Mexicans forbade the sale to foreigners, and, resolving to naturalize it in Santo Domingo, he went in 1752 to Mexico under the disguise of a Spanish physician. He remained three years in the country learning how to breed the insect, and also ascertaining the use of the nopal-plant, on which it feeds : and, having at last obtained speci- mens of both in 1755, he transported them, at great personal risk, to Santo Domingo, where their culti- vation soon became a prosperous industry. Louis XV. made Huon knight of St. Louis, the governor- general of Santo Domingo granted him a large tract of land near the city of Cape Francais, and the inhabitants of the colony, through a public subscription, presented him with a gold medal in 1758. Huon never returned to the Spanish posses- sions, as the Mexicans were greatly incensed against him for depriving them of the tribute for cochineal from European countries. He made Santo Do- mingo his home, and devoted the remainder of his life to the welfare of the colony. He was pensioned as royal botanist in 1763. and founded in Cape Francais the botanical society of the Philadelphes, establishing also a botanical garden, which is still one of the ornaments of the city, and opening a museum of natural history, the contents of which he had himself collected. " He published " Traite de culture du nopal " (Cape Francais, 1758) ; "De l'education de la eochenille, et de leur acclimata- tion a Saint Domingue" (1767, reprinted in " Me- moires de l'Academie des Sciences "), and " Voyage a Guaraxa dans la Nouvelle Espagne " (1761).

HUPP, John Cox, physician, b. in Donegal, Washington co., Pa., 24 Nov., 1819. He was graduated at Washington college, Pa., in 1844, at Jefferson medical college in 1847, and began practice in Wheeling, W. Va. He has been president of the board of examining surgeons for pensions, and was appointed in 1875 a delegate of the American med-