Page:The Biographical Dictionary of America, vol. 05.djvu/475

 HUNTINGTON

HUNTINGTON

major under General Parsons, subsequently serv- ing as deputy adjutant-general and deputy-pay- master to the troops under General Heath on the Hudson. In 1777-78 he was major of Col. Samuel B. Webb's regiment, being stationed in Rhode Island in 1778. He was promoted lieutenant- colonel, joined the main army, and commanded a battalion of light troops at Yorktown, and was then made volunteer aide to General Lincoln, continuing with that commander to the time of the surrender of Cornwallis. He was made major-general of the state militia in 1793, and in 1799, when war was threatened with France, General Washington named him as brigadier- general in the U.S. Army of Defence. He was a representative from Connecticut in the 11th and 15th congresses, 1809-11 and 1817-19. He died in Norwich, Conn., June 17. 1834.

HUNTINGTON, Elisha Mills, jurist, was born in Butternuts, N.Y., March 27, 180G ; son of Na- thaniel and Mary (Corning) Huntington, of Scotland, Conn.; grandson of Eliphalet and Dinah (Rudd) Huntington ; great-grandson of Nathaniel and Mehetabel (Thurston) Huntington ; greats-grandson of Deacon Joseph and Rebecca (Adgate) Huntington, and greats-grandson of Deacon Simon, who, with Cliristoi^her. Thomas, William and Ann, came with their mother, the widow of Simon Huntington, to Roxborough, Massachusetts Bay colony, in 1633. Elisha was prepared for college, but removed in 1822 with his brother Nathaniel to Carrollton, Ind. He was admitted to the bar in 1827, and was appointed first prosecuting attorney by the legislature. He was a representative in the state legislature four years, presiding jvidge of his district four years, commissioner of the general land office at Wash- ington, D.C., and in 1842 was nominated by President Tyler U.S. district judge for Indiana, which office he held twenty years. He was mar- ried, Nov. 3, 1841, to Susan, daughter of Dr. Christopher Rudd, of Springfield, Ky., related on her father's side to Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and on her mother's side to John C. Calhoun. They removed in 1858 to Terre Haute, and Judge Huntington's health soon made it necessary for him to seek a more congenial climate in Cuba and upper Minnesota. He died in St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 26, 1862.

HUNTINGTON, Ezra Abel, educator, was born in Columbus, N.Y., June 12, 1813; son of Elder Charles (1779-1859) and Martha (Hyde) Hunt- ington ; grandson of Ezra and Elizabeth (Hunt- ington) Huntington ; great-grandson of John and Civil (Tracy) Huntington, and great--grandsonof Deacon Christoplier and Sarah (Adgate) Hunting- ton. He was graduated at Union college in 1833, studied theology there under President Nott, and was ordained and installed pastor of the Third

Presbyterian church, Albany, N.Y., Feb. 9, 1837. He was married, July 30, 1839. to Anna Euphemia daughter of the Rev. Dr. Jacob Van Veciiten and granddaughter of the Rev. Dr. John M. Mason. He resigned his pastorate and was dismissed, Jan. 10, 1855, when he became Taylor professor of BibUcal criticism in Auburn Theological semi- nary, Auburn, N.Y., where he remained during his active life. He was married secondly, April 16, 1868, to Katherine Van Vechten, of Albany, N.Y. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Columbia in 1846, and that of LL.D. from Lafayette in 1883. He is the author of : Notes on the Epistle to the Hebreics (1866) and sermons and addresses. He died in Auburn, N.Y., July 14, 1901. HUNTINGTON, Frederic Dan, first bishop of Central New York and 93d in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Hadley, Mass., May 28, 1819 ; the youngest of seven sons of the Rev. Dan and Elizabeth Whiting (Phelps) Hunt- ington ; grandson of William and Bethia (Throop) Huntington and of Charles and Elizabeth (Porter) Phelps, and a de- scendant of Simon Huntington, who was born in England in 1629, settled with his mother in Massachu- setts Bay colony in 1633, and was one of the founders of the town of Norwich, Conn., 1660. His fath- er (born Oct. 11, 1774) was a graduate of Yale, A.B., 1794, A.M., 1797, and Williams, A.M., 1798 ; tutor at Yale, 1796-98 ; Congregational minister, subsequently Unita- rian ; published " Personal Memoirs" (1857), and died in 1864. Frederic Dan was graduated at Amherst as valedictorian in 1839, and received his A.M. degree in 1842. He was graduated at Harvard Divinity school in 1842 ; was pastor of the South Congregational (Unitarian) churcli, Boston, Mass., 1842-55, and the first preacher to the university and Plummer professor of Cluis- tian morals. Harvard, on the Plummer founda- tions, 1855-60. He was chaplain and preacher to the Massachusetts legislature one year. In 1860 he retired from the university, and in March of that j'ear was confirmed in the Episcopal church, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in Boston in September, 1860, and priest in March, 1861. He was called as rector of Emmanuel parish, Bos- ton, on its organization in 1861, and was rector there until consecrated bishop of Central New York, April 8, 1869, by Bishops Smith, Eastburn,