Huntington as Benjamin West's and he was too firmly set in his style and had enjoyed too great a popu- larity to take advantage of the discoveries of the last half of the nineteenth century. He did nevertheless have a good sense of color and in his earlier work a solid way of painting. [Samuel Isham and Royal Cortissoz, The Hist, of Am. Painting (1927) ; Who's Who in America, 1906- 07; the Outlook, Apr. 28, 1906; minutes of the Nat Acad. of Design, May 6, 1906; H. T. Tuckerman, Book of the Artists (1867),* S. G. W. Benjamin, "Daniel Huntington/' Am. Artists and Their Works, I (1878), 81-96; The Huntington Family in America (1915).] O.S.T. HUNTINGTON, ELISHA (Apr. 9, 1796- Dec. 13, 1865), physician, public official, was born at Topsfield, Mass., where his father, Rev. Asahel Huntington, was pastor of the Congre- gational Church. He was a descendant of Si- mon Huntington who died on his way from Eng- land to Roxbury, Mass., in 1633. His mother was Alethea Lord, and his maternal grandfather, Elisha Lord, M.D., of Pomfret, Conn., whose Christian name he received. In their hope that Elisha would become a physician his parents were not disappointed. After graduation from Dartmouth College in 1815, he taught in Mari- etta, Ohio, from 1815 to 1819, and at an academy in Marblehead, Mass., from 1819 to 1820. He then entered the medical school connected with Yale College, from which he received the de- gree of M.D. in 1823. In 1824 (according to sev- eral Lowell historians, though his daughter, Mrs. J. P. Cooke, in A Few Memories of Wil- liam Reed Huntington, 1910, says m 1826) he settled at East Chelmsford, Mass., incorporated soon after his arrival as the town of Lowell. He became its foremost citizen—an able and popu- lar general practitioner whose ministrations cov- ered a wide territory in Middlesex County— and a public man who helped to shape many of the institutions of a fast-growing community. He married, May 31, 1825, Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Deborah Hinckley, of Marblehead. His public career began in 1826 when he was elected to the first Lowell school board. In 1833 and 1834 he was a selectman, and when Lowell became a city in 1836, he was on its first coun- cil, of which he was chosen president in 1838. The following year he was elected mayor to suc- ceed Luther Lawrence, who had died in office. He was reflected seven times, though not in successive years. In 1852, running on the Whig ticket, he was elected lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, his term beginning in 1853. Amidst these political activities Huntington, al- ways a family physician of the best type, kept up an extensive medical practice. He attended regularly the meetings of the Middlesex North Huntington District Medical Society, of which, in 1848-49, he was president. He served as president of the Massachusetts Medical Society from 1855 to 1857. His Address on the Life, Character, and Writings of Elisha Bartleit (1856), like his mayoral addresses, is a model of simple, digni- fied writing. When a state altnshouse was es- tablished at Tewksbury, Dr. Huntington was appointed inspector for three years; later, as consulting physician, he had large influence in developing a technique for the treatment of the indigent and unfortunate. In honor of this citi- zen of many attainments, Lowell in 1853 dedi- cated a public auditorium, Huntington Hall, from the platform of which many notable men and women spoke in the heyday of the lyceum lecture. In 1860 he was chosen an overseer of Harvard College. Through attendance at the overseers' meetings and through possession of similar scientific and literary tastes, he became a close friend of Dr, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Huntington's death followed a severe cold con- tracted while he attended the funeral of a fellow physician, Dr. P. P. Campbell. The subsequent funeral services at St. John's Episcopal Church, of which he was senior warden, were of unusual impressiveness. His memory is honored in this church by a memorial window depicting St. Luke. [The Huntington Family in America (1915) I G. T. Chapman, Sketches of the Alvmni of Dartmouth Coll (1867); H. A. Miles, Lowell, as It Was and as It 1$, (1846); D.H,Hurd,Hitf.