HUNTINGTON, FREDERIC DAN Ameri can clergyman, first Protestant Episcopal bishop of central New York, was born in Hadley, Mass., on May 28, 1819. He gradu ated at Amherst in 1839 and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1842. In 1842-55 he was pastor of the South Congregational Church of Boston, and in 1855-6o 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 con nected 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 conse crated in April 1869, and thereafter lived in Syracuse. He died in Hadley, Mass., on July I1, 1904.
See Memoir and Letters of Frederic Dan Huntington (Boston, 1906) by A. S. Huntington, his daughter.