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he resumed his seat as justice of the superior court of Connecticut and as a member of the council or upper house of the general assembly. He wiis re-elected a delegate to congress in May, 1782, but did not take his seat owing to the condi- tion of his health. He was again elected in 1783 and took his seat while the congress was assem- bled at Princeton, N.J.. serving from June 30 to November 4, and when the congress ad journed he gave formal notice of his resignation on ac- count of continued illness. He was elected chief justice of the superior court of Connecticut in 1784; deputy-governor in 1785 and governor in 1786. He was continuously re-elected governor at the succeeding yearly elections up to the time of liis death. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale in 1779 and that of LL.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1780 and from Yale in 1787. He di^'d in Norwich, Conn., Jan. 5, 1796. HUNTINGTON, Samuel, governor of Ohio, was born in Coventry, Conn., Oct. 4, 1765; son of the Rev. Joseph and Hannah (Devotion) Huntington and grandson of Nathaniel and Me- hetabel (Thurston) Huntington, and of the Rev. Ebenezer Devotion, of Windham, Conn. The Rev. Joseph Huntington, born May 5, 1735, was a brother of Samuel, the signer, was graduated at Yale, A.B,, 1762, A.M., 1765, was pastor at Coventry, 1763-94, received the degree of D.D. from Dartmouth, 1780, was a trustee of Dartmouth, 1780-88, and died, Dec. 25, 1794. Samuel was adopted and educated by his uncle Samuel and was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1785, A.M.. 1788. He also received an honorary A.B. from Dartmouth in 1785. He was married, Dec. 20. 1791, to Hannah, daughter of Judge Andrew and Lucy (Coit) Huntington. He was admitted to the bar in 1793 and practi-sed in Norwich, Conn., 1793-1801, in Cleveland, Ohio, 1801-05, and in Painesville, Ohio, 1805-17. He served as a delegate to the Ohio state constitutional conven- tion of 1802; was judge of the court of common pleas, 1802-03; of the supreme court, 1803-09, and chief justice during the term; was a state sena- tor in the first general assembly, 1803; the tliird governor of the state, 1809-10, and a representa- tive and speaker in the 10th general as.sembly, 1811-12. In 1812 he was one of the original pro- prietors of Fairport, and in the war of 1812-13 was district paymaster with the rank of colonel. He died in Painesville. Oliio, June 8, 1817,

HUNTINGTON, William Henry, art collector, was lx)rn in Norwicii. Conn., Aug. 31, 1820; son of Charles Phelps and Maria (Perit) Huntington; grandson of Judge .-Vndrfw and Hannah (Phelps) Huntington, and great-grandson of Gen. Jabez and Elizabeth (Backus) Huntington. He be- came a writer fo" the press and rfpresented the New York Tribune as correspondent in Paris,

France, 1858-78, where he gained the friendship of Louis Blanc, Eugene Clemenceau and other prominent French i-adical politicians. During the siege of 1870-71 he remained in the city in order to relieve the suffering poor, and he gave liberally of his money and time to help the pa- triots struggling for the establishment of a re- public. His gifts were always acconij)anied by the condition that the benefactor should not be named, and it was not till his death that they were made public. He collected a large and valuable assortment of rare portraits, miniatures, bronzes and engravings of Washington, Franklin and Lafayette, the largest collection of the kind in the world, and he bequeathed it to the Metro- politan Museum of Art, New- York. He wrote for The American CTjdopcedia (1875) the article on Paris. He died in Paris. France, Oct. 1, 1885. HUNTINGTON, William Reed, clergyman, was born in Lowell.:Mass., Sejit. 20, 1838; son of Dr. Elisha and Hannah (Hinckley) Huntington; grandson of the Rev. Asahel and Alethea (Lord) Huntington, of Topsfield, Mass.; great-grandson of Deacon Barnabas and Anne (Wright) Huntington; great-- grandson of Chris- topher and Abigail Lathrop Huntington; greats-grandson of Deacon Christopher and Dora (Adgate) Huntington, and

great*-grandson of Christopher, son of Simon, the intended immigrant, 1633. Dr. Elisha Huntington, born April 9, 1796, died Dec. 10, 1865, was a graduate of Dartmouth, 1815; of Yale, M.D.,^ 1823; lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, 1853, and president of the Massachusetts ]\Iedical so- ciety. William Reed was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1859, A.M., 1862; was class poet at Harvard in 1859 and Phi Beta Kappa poet tiiere in 1870. After a course in theology he was rector's assist- ant at Emmanuel church, Boston, 1861-62; rector of All Saints' church, Worcester, Mass., 1862-83, and was made rector of Grace church. New York city, in 1883, as successor to the Rev. Henry C. Potter, elected to the bisliopric. He received the honorary degree of S.T.D. from Columbia college in 1873. that of D.D. from Harvard in 1898. and the degi-ees of D.C.L. from the University of the South, D.D. from Princeton and L.H.D. from Hobart, in 1899. Dr. Huntington became an acknowledged leader in the movement looking toward the establishment of a national church

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