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Huntington, Joseph, li.'i.t, wu» burn .Muy

uutliur, indliuiu, Conn.

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In r«U3-l>4 he was pa»tor ol' u congregalie died tional chureh at Coventry, Conn, Dec. 2o, i7U4, in Coventry, Conn.

Huntington, Joshua, clergyman,

author,

was born Jan. 'Si, 1780, in .Norwich, Conn. He was one ol the lounders of the Anierican educational bociety in 1813; and waa president ot the iJoslon society lor the Keligious and moral instruction of the poor, He was the which was tounded in 1810. author of the Litv of Abigail Waters. He died JSept. 11, 181'J, in (jlroton, Mass.

Huntington,

Whipple,

Oliver

educator,

founder, was born June U, 1858, in MariIn 18U2-U3 he was on the facetta, Ohio. ulty of Harvard college; and has traveled extensively. He founded the Cloyne house school for boys at Newport, K.I.; and in iliii.'i started the Cloyne camp for boys on Asquam Lake at Uohlerness, K.I.

Huntington, Robert W., naval ollicer. L nder his eoniniaml the forces of the United States planted the American Hag on Cuban soil; and took possession of the island. Huntington, Samuel, lawyer, jurist. He a judge of the United States court for the territory of Micliigan. He died in .Mieh-

was

Huntington, Samuel, signer of the declaration

ol

in<l<-iiih'ni'e,

man, was born July

3,

governor,

congress-

1731, in

Windham,

Conn.

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n 1704 he was elected to the general assembly of l,onnpcticut; in 1705 was appointed king's atttiriu-y; in 1774 was appointed a judge of the superior court; and in 1775 eleeteii He to the council. the a I

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pendence; and of the articles of confederation. In 1770-84 he was u delegate from Connecticut to the continental congress; and in 177!l-Hl he was president ol that body; and in 1784 was apftointed chief justice. He was the lirst governor of Connecticut in I7S5-!>0. He died Jan. 5, 175)0, in Windham, Conn. Huntington, Samuel, soldier, lawyer, jurist, state .senator, governor, was born Oct. He moved to 4. 1705, in Coventry, Conn. Ohio in ISIMI and settU-d near Paine.svilie. He was a judge of the court of common pleas in l802-0.'{; memlM-r of the convention that

framed the constitution

of

the state

IS(i2; an«l a state .senator in the lirst legislaliire and chosen speaker. He was n

in

jnd;;e

of

the superior court

in

1S03;

and

afterward cliief justice. He was the third governor of Oliio in lSOS-l; and member of the legislature in lSll-12. 5. 1SI7, in I'ainesviMe, Ohio.

He

. She died in 1823. Huntington, William Edward, soldier, clergy man, educator, was Uirii July .30, lt^4, Hillsborough, HI. He was first lieutenin the forty-ninth regiment .Missouri infantry. In 1872 he was ordained an elder in the miniBtry of the methodist episcopal and was appointed pastor in church; cliurclies at Chicago, HI.; and subsequeutU in Boston, Mass. Huntington, William Henry, journalist, philanthropist, was born May 3*1, 1H20. in in

ant

Norwich, Conn. Ue went to Kurope in 1858; and was correspondent of the New York Tribune for twenty years. He gave away a large part of his income in private charities; and voluntarily remained in I'aris during the siege of 187U-71 to relieve the suH'ering and poor in his own ({lutrter. He •lied Oct.

1,

1885, in Franc«'.

Huntington, William Reed, clergyman, lawyer, author, was born Sept. 2<), 1838. in Lowell, Mass. He was rector of All saints church at Worcester in 1802-83; and sine.1883 has been rect«»r of Oraee church of New York City. He is the author of The Church Idea; Conditional Immortality; The Peace of the Church; The Church I'oreh; (questions on the Fourth tiospel; The Causes of the Soul; Short History of the Book of Common Prayer; (^uinquagiiita, a book of tifty poems; A National Church; P»»pular .Misconceptions of the Episcopal Church; The Spiritual House, a lirst l^-ssiin in Atchiti'cture; Psyche, a study of the .^oul: Sonnets and a Dream. Huntley, Elias Dewitt, ch-rgyman. clain of the I'nited States senate, which otlicx* be held until 1880. Huntley, Mrs. Florence, journalist, author, was born in .A Ilia mi', Ohio. She is the wife of Stanley Huntley, the author of The Spookendyk«' Papers. At his death in ISSO she entered journalism. She is the author of The Dream Child; an*l Harmonies of F.vohition. She died Feb. 2, I!»12. in Oak Park. 111. Hunton, Eppa, soldier, lawyer, congressman. I'nited States senat«>r. was born Sept. 24, 1822, in Fauquier county. 'a. lie was state attorney for the county of Prini-*' William in lH4t)-02; and was elected to the state conventi<»n in 1801. He entered the confederate army as colonel of the eighth N'irginia infantry; was promoted after the l»jittle of r.ettysburg, .served through the

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