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Prof. S. F. B. Morse at the University of the City
of New York and at the National Academy of De-
sign. 18a.J-36. He spent the summer of 183G in
the liighlan.ls of the Hudson; exhibited in the
National Academy of Design in l>537, and was
made an associate
academician in 18o9
and an academician
in 1840. He was mar-
ried, June 16, 1840, to
Sophia Richards, of
Brooklyn, N.Y. He
studied in Paris, Flor-
ence and Rome in
1S39. and again in
1S43-4.J. He produc-
ed Sibyl, CJiristian
Prisoners and Shej)-
herd Boy (1839); xIji
Old Gentleman Read-
ing, being a portrait
of liis father, paint-
ed in 1837, exhibited at the Academy in 1838,
and which attracted much attention, and Mercy's
Dream (1841). His visit abroad in 1843-45 re-
sulted in The Sacred Lesson, The Communion
of the Sick, and other notable works in rad-
ical contrast to his earliest boyhood efforts,
which produced 77«e Bar Room Politician and -4
Toper Asleep. His visit along the Hudson in
1836 produced several Vieics near Verjilanck's,
and The Dunderburg Mountains. In 1837 he
painted the Rondout Creek at Ticilight and the
Shaicangunk Mountain Lake. He was president
of the National Academy of Design, 1862-69, and
1877-9\; president of the Century association,
1879-95, and vice-president of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. Hamilton college conferred
on him the degree of A.M. in 1850 and that of
LL.D. in 1869. His more important works not
above mentioned include: The Roman Penitents
(1844); Christiana arid Her Children; Queen
Mary Signing the Death Warrant of Lady Jane
Grey; Lady Jane Grey and FeckenJuim in the
Toirer (18.50); Rejmblican Court (1861); Soicing
the Word (1869); St. Jerome (IS70); Juliet on the
Balcony (1870); The Xarrotcs, Lake George (1871 );
Titian; Clement VIL and Charles V. at Bologna;
Phih)St>phy and Christian Art (1878); The Gold-
smith's Datujhter (1884). His portraits include
many of the notable men of his time, including
Presidents Van Buren, Lincoln, Grant, Hayes and
Arthur; Gen. John A. Dix, William Cullen Bry-
ant, Cliancellor Ferris, James Lenox, Louis
Agassiz, Robert C. "NVinthrop, John Sherman,
and Generals Sheridan and Sherman. His later
works include the American Projectors of the
Atlantic Cable, a group for the Cliamber of Com-
merce; and portraits for the same collection.
HUNTINGTON, De Witt Clinton, clergyman,
was born in Tuwnsend, Vt., April 27. 1830: son
of the Hon. Ebenezer and Lydia (Peck) Hunt-
ington; grandson of Eleazer and Pliebe (Harts-
horn) Huntington and of Jatlileel and Olive
(Hyde) Pock; great-grandson of Eleazer and Deb-
orah (Hovey) Huntington; greats-grandson of
Deacon Thomas and Elizabeth (Backus) Hunting-
ton; greats-grandson of Cliristopher and Ruth
(Rockwell) Huntington, and great*-grandson of
Simon and Margaret (Baret) Huntington, who
sailed for America in 1633. He attended the
scliools of his native town, and afterward took a
course in ancient and modern languages in Roch-
ester, N.Y. He married. May 25. 1853, Mary E.
Moore, of Chelsea, Vt. He became a member of
the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church
by reception into the Vermont conference in 1853;
was pastor at Proctorsville, Vt. , 1853-55. at Brat-
tleboro, Vt., 1855-57, and was transferred to west-
ern New York. He served as pastor at Hornells-
ville, 1857-59; Trumansburgh, 1859-61; Roclies-
ter, N.Y., 1861-71; Syracuse, N.Y.. 1873-76;
Rochester. N.Y., 1876-79; Bradford, Pa.. 1882-85,
and 1889-91: Olean, N.Y., 1885-89; Lincoln, Neb.,
1891-96. His wife died in 1865, and he was mar-
ried in 1868 to Frances H. Davis, of Rochester,
N.Y. He was pastor in Rochester. N.Y.. thirteen
years, serving the Asbury church three pastoral
terms. He was presiding elder, 1871-73, 1879-83,
and 1896-98; was a member of the general con-
ferences, 1868, 1872, 1876, 1880, 1884, 1888. 1896
and 1900, and of the Methodist Ecumenical con-
ference in London in 1881. He was a tru.stee
of Syracuse university, 1873-79. In March, 1898,
he was elected chancellor of the Nebraska Wes-
leyan imiversity. He received the lionorary de-
gree of D.D. from Genesee college in 1868; that
of LL.D. from Syracuse university in 1899: and
is credited as a graduate alumnus afZcfnif^^j/j of the
Syracuse university, D.D. . 1874. He is the autlior
of Sin and Holiness (1898). and of several pub-
lished addresses and sermons.
HUNTINGTON, Ebenezer, representative, was born in Norwich, Conn., Doc. 26, 1754; son of Gen. JaV)ez and Hannah (Williams) Huntington; grandson of Joslnia and Hannah (Perkins) Hunt- ington; great-grandson of Deacon Simon and Ly- dia (Gager) Huntington, and of Jabozaiid Hannali (Lathroi>) Perkins: great--gran<ls()n of Deacon Si- mon and Sarah (Clark) Huntington, and great-- grandson of Simon and Margaret (Baret) Hunt- ington. He was a student at Yale, but left col- lege to ser^'e in the American army, first as a lieutenant in Col. Samuel Wyllis's regiment. He received the degree of A.B. from Yale and from Harvard in 1775, and that of A.M. from both colleges in 1785. In 1776 he was pro- moted to the rank of captain, and was brigade
