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lived Metropolitan Magazine (Baltimore, 1853-
54) which was maintained on too high a literary
level for the Catholic reading public of the fifties.
Later he edited the St. Louis Leader (1855-56),
a Catholic weekly, which became a daily with
Catholic tendencies. Again he failed partly be-
cause of his tactless observations on the social
crudities of the frontier, on slavery, and other
debatable issues. There was no cessation of liter-
ary efforts, and though his novels were more
severely criticized in America than in England,
they were read. Alban, or the History of a
Young Puritan (1851,1853) recounted in auto-
biographical form the story of a New Englander
in Yale, in New York society, and in religious
evolution from Anglicanism to Catholicism. The
Pretty Plate (1852), a Sunday-school story
which appeared in a number of editions, was fol-
lowed by America Discovered: a Poem (1852) ;
The Forest, a sequel to Alban (1852); Narrative
of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America
in the Years 1811,12,13,14 (1854), translated
from the French of Gabriel Franchere; Blonde
and Brunette (1859); and Rosemary (1860),
which is usually regarded as his best work.
Among his published lectures, St. Vincent de
Paul and the Fruits of his Life (1852) was most
widely circulated, and today he is known for his
Short and Familiar Answers to Objections
Against Religion (1855), translated from the
French of Louis Gaston de Segur, which has
passed through many editions. At Pau in France,
death finally relieved Huntington from the rav-
ages of phthisis which he had borne so patiently.

ICath. Encyc,, vol. VII; F. E. Tourscher, ed., The
Kenrick-Frenaye Correspondence, 1830^62 (1920); C.
E. McGuire, Cath. Builders of the Nation (1923), vol.
IV; J. J. Walsh, "Doctor J. V. Huntington and the
Oxford Movement in America," Records of the Am.
Cath. Hirt. Soc., Sept., Dec. 1905; The Huntington
Family in America (1915); Cath. Mirror, Feb. 26,
1859; N. Y. Times, Mar. 29, 1862.] R.J.P.

HUNTINGTON, MARGARET JANE
EVANS (Jan. 9, i842-Mar. 17, 1926), educa-
tor, club woman, was born in Utica, N. Y., the
daughter of Daniel M. and Sarah (James)
Evans, who had come to the United States from
Wales. There were eight children, five daugh-
ters and three sous. While she was still a child,
the family moved to Minnesota, settling in Wino-
na County and later moving to Faribault, which
became their permanent home. It was in Wino-
na County that Margaret began her first teach-
*8g in a country school. In 1864 she entered
Lawrence University at Appleton, Wis., because
it was the only institution in the West at that
time where a woman could study Greek. She
graduated in 1869 and in 1872 received the de-

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gree of M.A., continuing at the college as pre-
ceptress until 1874 when she accepted a position
on the faculty of Carleton College at Northfield,
Minn. There she remained in active service un-
til 1908, with the exception of two years, 1878-
79 and 1892-93, spent in study abroad, holding
the positions of dean of women and professor of
English literature. Early in the eighties she be-
came interested in club work and founded the
Monday Club, long a successful organization.
In 1895 she took the leadership in the formation
of the Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs,
of which she was elected president. Her interest
in the state federation brought her into promi-
nence in the General Federation of Women's
Clubs which elected her second vice-president
In 1898. She was also chairman of the commit-
tee on education of the General Federation and
made an intensive study of the needs of the pub-
lic schools and educational standards throughout
the country. For many years she was much in
demand for speeches in connection with her club
work and other interests but she did little writ-
ing. A few of her speeches have been published.
She was the president of the Minnesota Congre-
gational Women's Board of Missions from 1879
to 1914 and had the distinction of being the first
woman to be elected a corporate member of the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions. In addition to these activities, she
held office in the Minnesota State Art Society
and was chairman of the Minnesota State Public
Library Commission from 1899 rotil her death.
On Nov. 7, 1914, she was married to the Rev,
George Huntington, pastor and professor of
rhetoric and Biblical literature at Carleton Col-
lege, who had long been her colleague, having
joined the faculty in 1879,

[Delevan L. Leonard, The Hist, of Carleton Coll
(1904) ; Mary I. Wood, The Hist of the Gen. Federa-
tion of Women's Clubs (1912) ; Minneapolis Morning
Tribune, Mar. iS, 1926; Who's Who in America, 1924-
25.1 B.R.

HUNTINGTON, SAMUEL (July 3, 1731-
Jan. 5, 1796), signer of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, president of the Continental Congress,
governor of Connecticut, was born in Windham,
Conn, He was the son of Nathaniel and Mehet-
able Thurston Huntington and was descended
from Simon Huntington whose widow settled in
Boston in 1633. His father was a farmer and
clothier, and he grew up on the farm and in the
shop, receiving but scant education. At sixteen
he was apprenticed to a cooper and served out
his term of apprenticeship. He was naturally
studious and, unaided, studied Latin and law.
In 1758 he was admitted to the bar and began

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