Huntington

member of the Unitarian Church at Northamp-
ton. Frederic read Channing, Dewey, Mar-
tineau, the Bible, Sir Thomas Browne, Burke,
and DeQuincey. He attended Hopkins Acad-
emy, where it is recorded, he was suspended for
one year because he failed in a Latin recitation.
In 1839 he graduated from Arnherst He had
been admitted to the Church of Christ, North-
ampton, In 1835, and was one of two Unitarians
in college during his four-year course. In De-
cember 1839 he entered Harvard Divinity
School, graduating in 1842. He had already
shown a strong reaction against ecclesiastical
intolerance and became deeply interested in
Transcendentalism, then in full flower under
such thinkers as Emerson, Theodore Parker,
and others. Huntington, however, was a severe
critic of the movement, though perhaps as a re-
action from his Calvinistic background, he val-
ued its freedom in the pursuit of truth. While
at Harvard he received thorough training in city
institutional work, particularly in prisons, thus
developing an interest in social Christianity
which he never lost During this period also
he helped Dr. Francis Greenwood in the services
at King's Chapel, Boston, where he had his first
experience in liturgical worship, another influ-
ence which was to develop later in his life. He
was ordained as pastor of the South Congrega-
tional Church (Unitarian), Boston, Oct 19,
1842, and the following year, Sept. 4, 1843, he
married Hannah Dane Sargent, daughter of
Epes Sargent From 1845 to l%5& he was editor-
in-chief of the Monthly Religious Magazine,

In 1855 Huntington accepted a call to go to
Harvard as preacher at the college chapel and
Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. Dur-
ing these years he went through the deep spir-
itual conflict which ultimately led him away
from Unitarianism and into the Episcopal
Church. His bent for liturgical worship, in-
spired by his experience at King's Chapel, led
him to prepare a service-book which was used
in Appleton Chapel on Sunday afternoons. His
spiritual struggle was reflected in his articles in
the Religious Magazine, and his dear-cut argu-
ments in that journal created wide-spread inter-
est Finally, in 1859, h*s decision to leave the
Unitarian faith and enter the Episcopal Church
•was made public in a volume of sermons under
the title: Christian Believing and Living. In a
letter of this period he wrote: *I was never so at
rest, never less anxious, never so strong as now"
(Memoir, post, p. 126). In 1860 he resigned his
positions at Harvard and in September of that
3Fesur was called as rector of Emmanuel Church,
Boston, wiiich he organized. He was ordered

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deacon in the same month at Trinity Church, by
Bishop Eastburn, and on Mar. 19, 1861, was ad-
vanced to the priesthood at the Church of the
Messiah by Bishop Eastburn. In 1868 he de-
clined the office of Bishop of Maine but upon his
election, on Jan. 10, 1869, as the first bishop of
the newly created Diocese of Central New York,
he accepted. He was consecrated at Emmanuel
Church, Boston, Apr. 8, 1869, by Bishop Smith.
During his episcopate in Central New York he
founded St. John's School, Manlius, N. Y.
(1869), which remains as one of his monuments.
In his work he was deeply devoted to the wel-
fare of the Indians of his diocese. While not a
political partisan he was a strong free-trader
and was opposed to the acquisition of the Philip-
pines. He was also deeply interested in the sin-
gle-tax movement and favored woman's suf-
frage. He died at Hadley, Mass. His published
works include: Lectures on Hmn&n Society
(1860) ; Helps to a Holy Lent (1872) ; Uncon-
scious Tuition (1878) ; and Christ in the Chris-
tian Year and in the Life of Man (2 vols., 1878-
81).

[Arria S. Huntington, Memoir and Letters of Fred-
eric Dan Huntington (1906); G. C. Richmond, Fred-
eric Dan Huntington (1908) ; The Huntington Family
in America (191$); Who's Who in America, 1903-05;
the Boston Herald, July 12, 1904.] G.E. S.

HUNTINGTON, HENRY EDWARDS
(Feb. 27, i8so-May 23, 1927), railway execu-
tive, financier, founder of the Huntington Li-
brary and Art Gallery, was born in Oneonta,
N. Y., the son of Solon and Harriet (Saunders)
Huntington, and a nephew of Collis Potter
Huntington [#.z>,]« He was educated in the
public and private schools of Oneonta and start-
ed in life with small resources. At an early age
he became a clerk in a hardware store in his na-
tive town and at twenty went to New York City
with a large hardware firm where he remained
until 1871. In that year he took charge of a saw-
mill which Collis P. Huntington was running at
St Albans, W. Va., to supply timber for his
railway construction. Later becoming the owner
of the mill, Henry continued this business ex-
perience for five years, after which he returned
to Oneonta, N. Y, In 1881, again at the request
of his uncle, he became superintendent of con-
struction on a portion of the lines which even-
tually became the Chesapeake, Ohio & South-
western Railroad. In 1884 he was appointed
superintendent of construction of the Kentucky
Central Railroad, in 1886 became receiver for
it, and from 1887 to 1890 was its vice-president
and general manager. During this period and
for the next two years he was director and offi-

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