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.
Bishop of Central New York
Huntington circa 1900
ChurchEpiscopal Church
DioceseCentral New York
Elected1868
In office1869-1904
SuccessorCharles Tyler Olmstead
Orders
OrdinationMarch 19, 1861
by Manton Eastburn
ConsecrationApril 8, 1869
by Benjamin B. Smith
Personal details
Born(1819-05-28)May 28, 1819
Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
DiedJuly 4, 1904(1904-07-04) (aged 85)
Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
BuriedOld Hadley Cemetery, Hadley, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
DenominationAnglican (prev. Unitarian)
ParentsDaniel Huntington and Elizabeth Whiting Phelps
SpouseHannah Dane Sargent
Children7, 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

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

  1. "Huntington, Frederic Dan", Episcopal Church. Retrieved on 29 September 2019.
  2. "Boston Pulpit". Gleasons Pictorial. Boston, Mass. 5. 1853.
  3. 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.

Episcopal Church (USA) titles
Preceded by
n/a
Bishop of Central New York
1869 1904
Succeeded by
Charles Tyler Olmstead
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