HUNTINGTON, a city of Indiana, U.S.A., on the Little river, 25m. S.W. of Fort Wayne; the county seat of Huntington county. It is on Federal highway 24, and is served by the Erie and the Wabash railways and by inter-urban electric lines. The population was 14,000 in 1920; 1930 it was 13,420. General farm ing is carried on in the neighbourhood, and the city has several large grain elevators. There are vast limestone deposits in the vicinity. Several hundred men are employed in the manufacture of lime, and there are large railroad repair shops and numerous other varied manufacturing industries. The aggregate factory output in 1925 was valued at $11,658,163. Huntington college (estab lished 189 7) is an institution of the United Brethren church, which also has its publication office here. Huntington was named after Samuel Huntington (1736-96) of Connecticut, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. It was settled about 1829, incorpo rated as a town in 1848, and chartered as a city in 1873.