Frederic Dan Huntington
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Frederic Dan Huntington (in some sources Frederick) (May 28, 1819 - July 11, 1904), American clergyman, first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central New York, was born in Hadley, Massachusetts.
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[edit] Background
He graduated at Amherst in 1839 and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1842. From 1842 to 1855 he was pastor of the South Congregational Church of Boston, 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.
He had refused the bishopric 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. He died in Hadley, Massachusetts, on the July 11, 1904.
His more important publications were Lectures on Human Society (1860); Memorials of a Quiet Life (1874); and The Golden Rule applied to Business and Social Conditions (1892).
[edit] 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.
[edit] Further reading
- Memoir and Letters of Frederic Dan Huntington (Boston, 1906), by Arria S Huntington, his wife.
[edit] See also
| Preceded by ' |
1st Bishop of Central New York 1869 – 1904 |
Succeeded by Charles T. Olmstead |
[edit] References
- The Episcopal Church Annual. Morehouse Publishing: New York, NY (2005).
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
