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 jj T,Q HUNT. HUNTINGTON. of careful study, and has collected in his extensive travels many rare books, plates and records. Among the more important of his published works may be mentioned : "The Lands of Scott ; " " Bibliography of Charlestown, Mass., and Bunker Hill ; " " The Historical Monuments of France ; " " The Imperial Island ; " " England's Chronicle in Stone ; " "A Century of Town JAMES F. HUNNEWELL. Life;" "Historical Sketch of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others in North America ; " " Civilization at the Hawaiian Islands ; " " An American Shrine ; " " Records of the First Church, Charlestown ; " " Journal of the Voyage of the Missionary Packet, Boston to Honolulu." HUNT, Cyrus Dexter, son of Cyrus and Lucy (Porter) Hunt, was born in East Weymouth, Norfolk count v, November 15, i333- He attended the common school until seventeen years of age. At twenty-seven he entered the Bridgewater normal school, and was graduated in the class of 1863. Before his entrance into the normal school, he learned the trade of nail-making, and worked in the factories at East Wey- mouth and Somerset. After leaving the normal school, he entered the employ ot the American Tack Company as agent and manager, and still retains that position with the company. In 1885 he went to Europe, where he spent six months studying the condition of manufacturing, and of the laboring and producing classes in those countries which compete with the United States in the for- eign markets of the world. Mr. Hunt has always been a Republican, but has never held any political office, having devoted his time entirely to his business. He was president of the Repub- lican campaign clubs during the last five presidential campaigns, and worked to pro- mote the interests of the party to which he belonged. He is a director in the National Bank of Fairhaven, and one of the hoard of investment in the Savings Bank of that town. He was married in East Weymouth, Feb- ruary 5, 1865, to Sarah E., daughter of William and Sarah (Wyman) .Mansfield, of Braintree. Of this union were five children: Everett A., Wallace D., Fred- erick M., Alice, and Mabel M. Hunt. HUNTINGTON, William Edwards, son of William Pitkin and Lucy (Edwards) Huntington, was born July 30, 1844, at Hillsborough, Montgomery county, 111. His early education was accomplished atpublicand private schools in Milwaukee, Wis., and he graduated at the State Uni- versity of Wisconsin in 1870, and from the school of theology, Boston University, in 1S73. He was ordained elder in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church by Bishop Wiley, in Lynn, in 187 2, and appointed to the Nahant Methodist Episcopal church. His subsequent pastorates were at Roslindale, iS72-'74 ; Newton, iS75-'76 ; Harvard Street, Cambridge, 1S7 7— '79 ; Tremont Street, Boston, i88o-'82. Since 1882 Mr. Huntington has been dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Boston University. On the 3d of October, 1876, in Newton, Mr. Huntington was married to Emma Caroline, daughter of Alden and Caroline (Robinson) Speare, who died the following year; and May 10, 1881, he married her sister, Ella Maria. Their only child is Raymond Edwards Huntington. During the last year of the civil war Mr. Huntington served as first lieutenant in the 49th Wisconsin infantry. In 1881 he received the degree of Ph. D. from the Boston University, where he is highly es- teemed as one of the leading members of the faculty. His present residence is New- ton Centre.