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 HUNTLEY

HUNTON

to be built "not of small bricks but ratber of huge rough-hewn blocks of that sort thab can be counted upon to stay put up without cement ; solid masses of facts, that is to say — as distin- guished from speculation, basaltic rock which critics and controversialists might chip away at as long as they pleased without any very serious results." The general convention at Washington, D.C., Oct. 17, 1898, adopted by an almost unanimous vote his plan of a more liberal form of worship to meet the wants of congrega- tions not in union with the Protestant Episcopal church, but who were willing to accept the spiritual oversight of the bishop of the diocese. In his parish in New York and throughout the neighborhood peopled by the poorer classes in the city, even outside his parisli limits, he extended a system of practical methods of self-help, that took away the appearance of charity and worked a reform never before attained in institutional church work. He is the author of : The Church Idea, an Essay toward Unity (1870); Conditional Immortality (1878); TJie Book Annexed, its Crit- ics and its Prophets (ISSQ); The Peace of the Clnirch, Bohlen Lectures (1891); A National Church (1898); Sonnets and a Dream, and con- tributions to ecclesiastical periodicals.

HUNTLEY, Elias Dewitt, chaplain, was born in Elmira, N.Y., April 19, 1840 ; son of Elias S. and Frances (Tooker) Huntley. He was graduated at Genesee college in 1866, and the same year entered the Methodist ministry. He preached in the Nunda circuit, was j^rofessor of ancient languages at Genesee Wesleyan seminary for six months, and then went to Wisconsin, where he was presiding elder of the Madison district. He was president of Lawrence university, Ap- pleton. Wis., 1879-83 ; pastor of the Metropolitan church, Washington, D.C., and chaplain of the U.S. senate, 1883-86 ; pastor of M.E. church, Mad- ison avenue. New York city, 1886, of the First church, An- napolis, Md., 1887-91; of the First church, Baltimore.Md., 1891-93 ; of the Su m m er fiel d church, Mil- waukee, Wis., L- t E uMVEBsiTY i ^ 1893-95, aud of Trinity church, Washington, D.C., 1897-1900. He was a delegate to the Ecumenical conference, London, 1881 ; received the degree of D.D., from the East Tennessee Wesleyan university in 1879, that of LL.D. from Iowa State university in 1879, and that of D.D. from the U.S. Grant university in 1886, and was a prominent advocate of the higher education of the dependent class.

HUNTON, Eppa, senator, was born in Fauquier county, Va., Sept. 23, 1823, He was educated as a lawyer, and practised in Warrenton. He was com- monwealth's attorney of Prince William county, 1849-62 ; delegate to the Virginia secession con- vention, February, 1801 ; colonel of the 8th Vir- ginia infantry ; brigadier-general after the battle of Gettysburg, where he succeeded to the command of Gen. R. B. Garnett; was captured at Sailor's Creek, April 6, 1865, and confined in Fort Warren, Boston harbor, and was released in July, 1865. He was a representative in the 43d, 44th, 45th and 46th congresses, 1873-81 ; a member of the judiciary committee, and of the committee to frame a law to settle the disputed presidential election of 1876 ; was elected by the house of rejjresent- atives a member of the electoral commission, and was one of the minority of seven in that commission. He was appointed by Governor McKinney, May 28, 1892, to a seat in the U.S. senate to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Senator J. S. Barbour, taking his seat June 1, 1892, and the legislature of Virginia, when it met, elected him to fill out tlie unexpired term of Senator Barbour, expiring March 4, 1895. He was chairman of the select committee on the University of the United States, and a member of the committees on the District of Columbia, education and labor, post-offices and post-roads, relations with Canada, and the select committee on the condition of the Potomac river front.

HUNTON, Jonathan Glidden, governor of Maine, was born in Unity, N.II., March 4, 1781 ; son of Josiali and Hannah (Glidden) Hun- ton ; grandson of Charles Hunton ; great-grand- son of John Hunton, and greats-grandson of PhiliiJ Hunton, who immigrated to America from the Isle of Jersey, and married Elizabeth Hall, of Exeter, N.H., in 1687. His father was a major in the Revolutionarj' army, and town clerk of Unity, N.H. Jonathan was educated in the public schools, studied law in the office of his uncle, Samuel P. Glidden, at Readfield, Maine, was admitted to the bar in 1806, and practised in Readfield, 1806-37. He was a mem- ber of the executive council of Maine, 1829 ; was elected governor of Maine in 1829 by the Republi- can party, and served one term, as successor to Enoch Lincoln, and was defeated for re-election in 1830. He was the first governor of Maine to advocate an asylum for the insane, and it was largely through his influence that one was es- tablished. He was state senator in 1833. He removed to Dixmont, Maine, about 1837, and engaged in the practice of law. He was married to Betsey Craig, who died, Nov. 7, 1819 ; and secondly to Mrs. Mary (Mitchell) Glidden, widow of his uncle, Samuel P. Glidden. He died in Fairfiekh Maine, Oct. 12, 1851.