Frederic Dan Huntington
Frederic (or Frederick) Dan Huntington (May 28, 1819, Hadley, Massachusetts – July 11, 1904, Hadley, Massachusetts) was an American clergyman and the first Protestant Episcopal bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York.
The Right Reverend Frederic Dan Huntington D.D. | |
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| Bishop of Central New York | |
 Huntington circa 1900 | |
| Church | Episcopal Church |
| Diocese | Central New York |
| Elected | 1868 |
| In office | 1869-1904 |
| Successor | Charles Tyler Olmstead |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | March 19, 1861 by Manton Eastburn |
| Consecration | April 8, 1869 by Benjamin B. Smith |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 28, 1819 Hadley, Massachusetts, United States |
| Died | July 4, 1904 (aged 85) Hadley, Massachusetts, United States |
| Buried | Old Hadley Cemetery, Hadley, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Denomination | Anglican (prev. Unitarian) |
| Parents | Daniel Huntington and Elizabeth Whiting Phelps |
| Spouse | Hannah Dane Sargent |
| Children | 7, including Ruth Huntington Sessions |
Early life, education and career
Frederic Dan, the youngest of the eleven children born to Dan and Elizabeth Huntington, was born in Hadley, Massachusetts on May 28, 1819. He grew up on the family farm "Forty Acres," the home of both his mother and his grandmother, Elizabeth Porter Phelps.
He graduated at Amherst College in 1839 and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1842.[1] In 1843 he married Hannah Sargent, the sister of Epes Sargent. From 1842 to 1855 he was pastor of the South Congregational Church of Boston,[2] and in 1855-1860 as 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.
Syracuse, New York
Rev. Huntington founded the St. John's School, a military school, in 1869 in Manlius, New York, and was its president until his death in 1904. In the 1920s, St. John's became known as the renowned military school, The Manlius School, today integrated into the Manlius Pebble Hill School.
He had refused the bishopric of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine when, in 1868, he was elected to the Diocese of Central New York. He was consecrated on April 9, 1869, and thereafter lived in Syracuse, New York.
Consecrators
- The Most Reverend Benjamin B. Smith
- The Right Reverend Manton Eastburn
- The Right Reverend Horatio Potter
N.B.: 93rd bishop consecrated in the Episcopal Church.
End of life
Huntington remained throughout his life attached to the family's ancestral farm in Hadley, Massachusetts, in the 1860s purchasing his siblings' shares so that he could inherit the house. He continued to manage it as a working farm, and spent summers there throughout his life. Huntington died in Hadley on July 11, 1904, aged 85.
Publications
His more important publications included:
- Lectures on Human Society (1860)
- Memorials of a Quiet Life (1874)
- The Golden Rule applied to Business and Social Conditions (1892)
From 1845 to 1858 he was the editor of The Monthly Religious Magazine, a Unitarian review.
Legacy
Huntington's ancestral family home, the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House in Hadley, became a historic house museum in the 1940s, and is open seasonally. His daughter Ruth Huntington Sessions wrote a memoir, Sixty Odd (1936), which includes details about her childhood with Huntington.[3]
See also
- List of Bishop Succession in the Episcopal Church
References
Notes
- "Huntington, Frederic Dan", Episcopal Church. Retrieved on 29 September 2019.
- "Boston Pulpit". Gleasons Pictorial. Boston, Mass. 5. 1853.
- Sessions, Ruth Huntington (1936). Sixty-odd: A Personal History. Stephen Daye Press.
Further reading
- Christian Believing and Living: Sermons by Frederic Dan Huntington (Harvard, 1860), Original from Harvard, digitized by google books on Oct. 19, 2006.
- Elim: or, Hymns of Holy Refreshment, ed. Rev. F.D. Huntington. Boston: Dutton, 1865.
- Memoir and Letters of Frederic Dan Huntington (Boston, 1906), by Arria S. Huntington, his daughter.
- The Episcopal Church Annual. Morehouse Publishing: New York, NY (2005).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Huntington, Frederic Dan". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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- Frederic Dan Huntington at Find a Grave
- The sermons and addresses by Frederic Dan Huntington are at the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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| Preceded by n/a |
Bishop of Central New York 1869 – 1904 |
Succeeded by Charles Tyler Olmstead |
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