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LEFT HUNTINGTON 86 HUNTSVILLE and Ohio railroad. It is the seat of Marshall College, the State Normal School, and the Douglas Colored High School, and has electric lights and street railways, daily and weekly newspapers, and National banks. It was named after the late Collis P. Huntington. Pop. (1910) 31,161; (1920) 50,177. HUNTINGTON, ARCHER MILTON, an American writer, born in New York City in 1870. He was educated pri- vately in New York and Spain. He was a son of Collis P. Huntington, and de- voted a part of his great wealth to the foundation of the Hispanic Society of America to which he gave a magnificent building. He was a member of many foreign and American societies. He edited "The Poem of the Cid" (3 vols., 1897) and various other works. He contributed to magazines on Spanish- American subjects. HUNTINGTON, COLLIS POTTER. one of the earliest American railroad builders; born in Connecticut in 1821. He started at the age of 15 as a peddler of clocks in the South and West. In 1848 he joined the rush to California and eleven years later he was one of the leading promoters of the Central Pacific railway. In 1881 Huntington, with Leland Stanford, built the Southern Pacific and Chesapeake and Ohio rail- roads. His enormous fortune, accumu- lated in these successful ventures, was partly used to further Indian and negro education. At his death in 1900 he be- queathed his valuable collection of paint- ings to the Metropolitan Museum in New York. HUNTINGTON, DANIEL, an Ameri- can painter; born in New York City, Oct. 14, 1816. He studied at Hamilton Col- kge. After a visit to Europe in 1839 he returned to New York and devoted himself to portraits, but he executed a great number of genre and historical pieces. In 1862-1869 he was president of the National Academy, and again in J 877-1891. Among his later works are -Philosophy and Christian Art" (1878), and "Goldsmith's Daughter" (1884). "Mercy's Dream," in the Corcoran Gal- lery, Washington, is one of his most notable works. He painted portraits of Presidents Lincoln and Grant, and Sena- tor John Sherman. He died April 18, 1906. HUNTINGTON, ELLSWORTH, an American scientist and explorer; born in Galesburg, 111., in 1876. He graduated from Beloit College in 1897 and after- ward took post-graduate courses at Har- vard. He carried on explorations in Turkey and Mesopotamia from 1897 to 1901. In 1903 and 1904 he was re- search assistant for the Carnegie Insti- tute in Russian Turkestan. This was followed by explorations in Chinese Turkestan, India, China, and Siberia. He was instructor of geography at Yale from 1907 to 1910, assistant professor from 1910 to 1915, and research asso- ciate from 1917. He was a member of many geographical and scientific socie- ties. He was the author of "Explora- tions in Turkestan" (1905); "The Pulse of Asia" (1907); "Palestine and Its Transformation" (1911); "Civilization and Climate" (1915); "Red Man's Conti- nent" (1919). HUNTINGTON, FREDERIC DAN, an American clergyman; born in Had- ley, Mass., May 28, 1819. In early liftv as a Unitarian minister he held a pastor- ate in Boston from 1842 to 1855, when he became Plummer Professor of Chris- tian Morals in Harvard University. In 1860 he withdrew from the Unitarian denomination, was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in 1869 was consecrated Bishop of Central New York. His writings include; "Christian Believing and Living" (1860); "Steps to a Living Faith" (1873); "Personal Christian Life in the Ministry" (1887) ; "Forty Days with the Master" (1891). He died at Hadley, Mass., July 11, 1904. HUNTINGTON, WILLIAM ED- WARDS, an American educator, born in Hillsboro, 111., in 1844. He served throughout the Civil War and in 1870 graduated the University of Wisconsin. He took post-graduate courses at other colleges. In 1868 he was ordained as a Methodist minister. After serving as pastor in several churches in Massa- chusetts he was appointed dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Boston Uni- versity. From 1904 to 1911 he was president of that institution, and from 1911 to 1917 was dean of the Graduate Department. HUNTSVILLE, town and county-seat of Madison co., Ala., on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, and the Southern railroads; 131 miles S. of Nashville, Tenn. It is a summer and winter resort and the seat of Goodrich Training School, State Agricultural and Mechanical Institute for Negroes, and Lowry and Westmoreland Infirmary. Its manufactures include cotton, cotton- seed oil, flour, and sawmill products. There are daily and weekly newspapers, public high school, National banks, and