FREDERIC

See also:

• DAN

DAN

See also:

• HUNTINGTON
• HUNTINGTON, DANIEL (1816-1906)
• FREDERIC DAN HUNTINGTON (1819–1904)

HUNTINGTON (1819–1904)  , American clergyman, first Protestant Episcopal bishop of central New York, was born in Hadley, Massachusetts, on the 28th of Nay 1819 . He graduated at Amherst in 1839 and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1842 . In 1842–1855 he was pastor of the South Congregational Church of Boston, and in 1855–186o was preacher to the university and Plummer professor of Christian Morals at Harvard; he then left the Unitarian Church, with which his father had been connected as a clergyman at Hadley, resigned his professorship and became pastor of the newly established Emmanuel Church of Boston . He had refused the bishopric of Maine when in 1868 he was elected to the diocese of central New York . He was consecrated on the 9th of April 1869, and thereafter lived in Syracuse . He died in Hadley, Massachusetts, on the 11th of July 1904 . His more important publications were Lectures on Human Society (186o); Memorials of a Quiet Life (1874); and The Golden Rule applied to Business and Social Conditions (1892) . See Memoir and Letters of Frederic Dan Huntington (Boston, 1906), by Arria S . Huntington, his wife .