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Huntington, Samuel (Soldier lawyer jurist state)

soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, governor, was born Oct. 4, 1765, in Coventry, Conn. He moved to Ohio in 1800 and settled near Painesville. He was a judge of the court of common pleas in 1802 and 1803; member of the convention that framed the constitution of the state in 1802; and a senator in the first legislature and chosen speaker. He was a judge of the superior court in 1803; and afterward chief justice. He was governor from 1808 to 1810; and member of the legislature in 1811 and 1812. He died June 8, 1817, in Painesville, Ohio.

HUNTINGTON, SUSAN MANSFIELD, author, was born Jan. 27, 1791. She wrote a story entitled Little Lucy. Her memoirs, with her letters, journal, and poetry, were published by Benjamin B. Wisner in 1829. She died in 1823. HUNTINGTON, WILLIAM HENRY, philanthropist, was born May 30, 1820, in Norwich, Conn. He went to Europe in 1858, and was correspondent of the New York Tribune for twenty years. He gave away a large part of his income in private charities, and voluntarily remained in Paris during the siege of 1870-71 to relieve the suffering and poor in his own quarter. He died Oct. 1, 1885, in France.

HUNTINGTON, WILLIAM REED, clergyman, lawyer, author, was born Sept. 20, 1838, in Lowell, Mass. He is an episcopal clergyman of prominence as a broad churchman. He was rector of All Saints church at Worcester, in 1862-83, and since 1883 has been rector of Grace church, New York city. He is the author of The Church Idea; Conditional Immortality; The Peace of the Church; The Church Porch; Questions on the Fourth Gospel; The Causes of the Soul; Short History of the Book of Common Prayer; and Quinquaginta, a book of fifty poems.