Huntington

and conservative factions. The Virginians,
Worthington and Tiffin, were liberal leaders;
Huntington, George Tod, and Return J. Meigs,
Jr., all of Connecticut, led the conservatives. A
victory was won for the conservatives when the
supreme court asserted its right to nullify an
act of the legislature on the ground of unconsti-
tutionally. Huntington and his associate judge,
George Tod, were responsible for this pro-
nouncement. Tod narrowly escaped removal by
impeachment proceedings. Huntington was not
impeached, for in 1808 he was elected governor
over Thomas Worthington by the concerted ac-
tion of conservative Republicans and Federal-
ists. Inasmuch as the constitution of 1802 had
created a powerless executive, Huntington's ad-
ministration was quite uneventful. He was not
a candidate to succeed himself in 1810, for he
hoped to be elected to the United States Senate,
but Thomas Worthington defeated him by a nar-
row margin. He was a member of the Ohio
House of Representatives In 1811-12, During
the War of 1812 he held the responsible and bur-
densome office of district paymaster in the regu-
lar army. As a judge, Huntington showed more
than ordinary ability. In politics he was unfor-
tunate in that he occupied ground midway be-
tween the Virginia Jeffersonians and the Fed-
eralist minority, and so pleased neither group.

[See Western Reserve Hist. Soc. Tracts, no. 95
(1915) ; W. T. Utter, "Judicial Rev, in Early Ohio,"
Miss. If alley Hist. Rev., June 1927; F. B. Dexter, Biog.
Sketches of the Grads. of Yale Coll., vol. IV (1907) ;
J. H. Kennedy, A Hist, of the City of Cleveland (1896);
Chas. Whittlesey, Early Hist, of Cleveland, Ohio
(1867); M. E. Perkins, Old Houses of the Ancient
Town of Norwich (1895) '> The Huntington Family in
America (1915); the Western Reserve Chroniclet June
19, 1817.] W.T.U.

HUNTINGTON, WILLIAM EDWARDS

(July 30, i844-Dec. 6, 1930), clergyman, uni-
versity president, son of William Pitkin and
Lucy (Edwards) Huntington, and nephew of
Bishop Frederic Dan Huntington [<?.#.], was
bora in Hillsboro, 111. He attended public and
private schools in Milwaukee, Wis., interrupting"
his education in 1864 to enlist in the 40th Wis-
consin Infantry. In 1865 he was made a lieu-
tenant in the 4Qth Wisconsin Regiment. A year
later he entered the University of Wisconsin,
from which he was graduated in 1870 with the
degree of A.R. Although of Unitarian par-
entage, he had already in 1867 been licensed to
preach in the Methodist Episcopal Chttrch and
while a student held a pastorate in Madison,
Wis. In 1870 he went to Boston where he stud-
ied for three years at the Boston University
School of Theology, receiving the degree of B.D.
in 1873, Admitted to membership in the New

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England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in 1871, he held pastorates in and near
Boston until 1880, when he went to Germany.
There he studied for two years at the universi-
ties of Leipzig and Gottingen. He received the
Ph.D. degree in the field of ethics from Boston
University in 1882. President Warren of Bos-
ton University, impressed with Huntington's
character and training, obtained his appointment
as dean of the college of Liberal Arts in the same
year—a position which he occupied until his elec-
tion to the presidency of the university in 1904
on Warren's retirement This office he resigned
in 1911 on account of failing health, but he re-
mained as dean of the graduate school until 1917
when he retired from active service. During his
presidency Boston University increased in en-
rolment and maintained high standards and con-
servative policies. When enthusiasm for elec-
tives was at its height, Huntington resisted the
demands of extremists, continuing both required
and elective courses. He established the scien-
tific departments of the College of Liberal Arts
and enlarged the scope of the school's activi-
ties by the institution of extension courses for
teachers and others. In 1907, with Hunting-
ton's cooperation, the College of Liberal Arts
was moved from Beacon Hill to Copley Square,
where it enjoyed increased facilities. On his
motion an agreement by which a graduate of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College (later the
State College) had had the privilege of receiv-
ing the degree of S.B. from Boston University
was discontinued in 1911. But despite the con-
structive features of his administration, he was
greater as dean than as president Few educa-
tors have had a greater influence upon the gen-
eration of students with whom they had to deal.
He was twice married: on Oct. 3, 1876, to Emma
C. Speare, who died in 1877, ai*d on May 10,
1881, to Ella M. Speare, the sister of his first
wife, who with one son and two daughters sur-
vived him.

[Boston Globet Dec. 7, 1930; Zion's Heraldt Dec. 10,
24, 1930; Bostonia, Jan. 1904, July 1911, Mar. 1917,
Jan. 1931; J- C. Rand, One of a Thousand (1899);
Who's Who in America, 1930-31; Boston University,
President's Reports, 1904-11; W. E. Leonard, The
Locomotive-God (1927), p. 159; The Huntington Fam-
ily in America (1915)-] R.E.M.

HUNTINGTON, WILLIAM REED (Sept.
20, iSsS-July 26, 1909), clergyman and author,
was born in Lowell, Mass., the son of EHsha
Huntington [<?.#-] a physician, and Hannah
(Hinckley) Huntington, who was of Mayflower
stock. From 1853 to 1855 he was a student at
Norwich University, Vt, and in the latter year
entered Harvard University, from which he

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