William Edwards Huntington
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William Edwards Huntington (1844- ? ) was an American university dean and president. He was born at Hillsboro, Ill., served as private and first lieutenant in the Wisconsin Infantry in 1864-65, and was educated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (A.B., 1870) and at Boston University (B.D., 1873; Ph.D., 1881), where he was dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1884 to 1904, president of the university in 1904-11, and dean of the graduate department after 1911. In early life he was a Methodist minister, having been ordained in 1868, and he held pastorates in Massachusetts at Nahant (1870-71), Roslindale (1872-74), Newton (1875-76), Cambridge (1877-79), and Boston (1880-82).
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