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Prof. S. F. B. Morse at the University of the City of New York and at the National Academy of De- sign. 18a.J-36. He spent the summer of 183G in the liighlan.ls of the Hudson; exhibited in the National Academy of Design in l>537, and was made an associate academician in 18o9 and an academician in 1840. He was mar- ried, June 16, 1840, to Sophia Richards, of Brooklyn, N.Y. He studied in Paris, Flor- ence and Rome in 1S39. and again in 1S43-4.J. He produc- ed Sibyl, CJiristian Prisoners and Shej)- herd Boy (1839); xIji Old Gentleman Read- ing, being a portrait of liis father, paint- ed in 1837, exhibited at the Academy in 1838, and which attracted much attention, and Mercy's Dream (1841). His visit abroad in 1843-45 re- sulted in The Sacred Lesson, The Communion of the Sick, and other notable works in rad- ical contrast to his earliest boyhood efforts, which produced 77«e Bar Room Politician and -4 Toper Asleep. His visit along the Hudson in 1836 produced several Vieics near Verjilanck's, and The Dunderburg Mountains. In 1837 he painted the Rondout Creek at Ticilight and the Shaicangunk Mountain Lake. He was president of the National Academy of Design, 1862-69, and 1877-9\; president of the Century association, 1879-95, and vice-president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hamilton college conferred on him the degree of A.M. in 1850 and that of LL.D. in 1869. His more important works not above mentioned include: The Roman Penitents (1844); Christiana arid Her Children; Queen Mary Signing the Death Warrant of Lady Jane Grey; Lady Jane Grey and FeckenJuim in the Toirer (18.50); Rejmblican Court (1861); Soicing the Word (1869); St. Jerome (IS70); Juliet on the Balcony (1870); The Xarrotcs, Lake George (1871 ); Titian; Clement VIL and Charles V. at Bologna; Phih)St>phy and Christian Art (1878); The Gold- smith's Datujhter (1884). His portraits include many of the notable men of his time, including Presidents Van Buren, Lincoln, Grant, Hayes and Arthur; Gen. John A. Dix, William Cullen Bry- ant, Cliancellor Ferris, James Lenox, Louis Agassiz, Robert C. "NVinthrop, John Sherman, and Generals Sheridan and Sherman. His later works include the American Projectors of the Atlantic Cable, a group for the Cliamber of Com- merce; and portraits for the same collection.

HUNTINGTON, De Witt Clinton, clergyman, was born in Tuwnsend, Vt., April 27. 1830: son of the Hon. Ebenezer and Lydia (Peck) Hunt- ington; grandson of Eleazer and Pliebe (Harts- horn) Huntington and of Jatlileel and Olive (Hyde) Pock; great-grandson of Eleazer and Deb- orah (Hovey) Huntington; greats-grandson of Deacon Thomas and Elizabeth (Backus) Hunting- ton; greats-grandson of Cliristopher and Ruth (Rockwell) Huntington, and great*-grandson of Simon and Margaret (Baret) Huntington, who sailed for America in 1633. He attended the scliools of his native town, and afterward took a course in ancient and modern languages in Roch- ester, N.Y. He married. May 25. 1853, Mary E. Moore, of Chelsea, Vt. He became a member of the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church by reception into the Vermont conference in 1853; was pastor at Proctorsville, Vt., 1853-55. at Brat- tleboro, Vt., 1855-57, and was transferred to west- ern New York. He served as pastor at Hornells- ville, 1857-59; Trumansburgh, 1859-61; Roclies- ter, N.Y., 1861-71; Syracuse, N.Y.. 1873-76; Rochester. N.Y., 1876-79; Bradford, Pa.. 1882-85, and 1889-91: Olean, N.Y., 1885-89; Lincoln, Neb., 1891-96. His wife died in 1865, and he was mar- ried in 1868 to Frances H. Davis, of Rochester, N.Y. He was pastor in Rochester. N.Y.. thirteen years, serving the Asbury church three pastoral terms. He was presiding elder, 1871-73, 1879-83, and 1896-98; was a member of the general con- ferences, 1868, 1872, 1876, 1880, 1884, 1888. 1896 and 1900, and of the Methodist Ecumenical con- ference in London in 1881. He was a tru.stee of Syracuse university, 1873-79. In March, 1898, he was elected chancellor of the Nebraska Wes- leyan imiversity. He received the lionorary de- gree of D.D. from Genesee college in 1868; that of LL.D. from Syracuse university in 1899: and is credited as a graduate alumnus afZcfnif^^j/j of the Syracuse university, D.D. . 1874. He is the autlior of Sin and Holiness (1898). and of several pub- lished addresses and sermons.

HUNTINGTON, Ebenezer, representative, was born in Norwich, Conn., Doc. 26, 1754; son of Gen. JaV)ez and Hannah (Williams) Huntington; grandson of Joslnia and Hannah (Perkins) Hunt- ington; great-grandson of Deacon Simon and Ly- dia (Gager) Huntington, and of Jabozaiid Hannali (Lathroi>) Perkins: great--gran<lsn of Deacon Si- mon and Sarah (Clark) Huntington, and great-- grandson of Simon and Margaret (Baret) Hunt- ington. He was a student at Yale, but left col- lege to ser^'e in the American army, first as a lieutenant in Col. Samuel Wyllis's regiment. He received the degree of A.B. from Yale and from Harvard in 1775, and that of A.M. from both colleges in 1785. In 1776 he was pro- moted to the rank of captain, and was brigade