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{{short description|American bishop (1819–1904)}}
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| name = Frederic Dan Huntington
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| title = [[Episcopal Diocese of Central New York|Bishop of Central New York]]
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| elected = 1868
| term = 1869–1904
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| ordination = March 19, 1861
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'''Frederic''' (or '''Frederick''') '''Dan Huntington''' (May 28, 1819, [[Hadley, Massachusetts]] – July 11, 1904, [[Hadley, Massachusetts]]) was an American clergyman and the first Protestant [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|Episcopal]] bishop of the [[Episcopal Diocese of Central New York]].

==Early life, education and career==
Frederic Dan, the youngest of the eleven children born to Dan and Elizabeth Huntington, was born in [[Hadley, Massachusetts]] on May 28, 1819. He grew up on the family farm "Forty Acres," the home of both his mother and his grandmother, [[Elizabeth Porter Phelps]].

He graduated at [[Amherst College]] in 1839 and at the [[Harvard Divinity School]] in 1842.<ref>[https://www.episcopalchurch.org/library/glossary/huntington-frederic-dan "Huntington, Frederic Dan"], ''Episcopal Church''. Retrieved on 29 September 2019.</ref> In 1843 he married Hannah Sargent, the sister of [[Epes Sargent (poet)|Epes Sargent]]. From 1842 to 1855 he was pastor of the South Congregational Church of [[Boston]],<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Gleasons Pictorial |location=Boston, Mass. |url=https://archive.org/stream/gleasonspictoria0506glea#page/n128/mode/1up |title=Boston Pulpit |date=1853 |volume=5 }}</ref> and in 1855-1860 as preacher to the university and Plummer professor of Christian Morals at Harvard; he then left the [[American Unitarian Association|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 Episcopal Church, Boston|Emmanuel Church]] of Boston.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

=== Syracuse, New York ===
[[File:210 Walnut Place, Walnut Park Historic District, Syracuse, New York.jpg|thumb|Huntington built his home in 1897 at 210 Walnut Place, [[Walnut Park Historic District]] on Syracuse University campus.<ref>[https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001755.pdf Walnut Park Historic District NRHP 09/15/1983]</ref>]]
Rev. Huntington founded the St. John's School, a [[military school]], in 1869 in [[Manlius (town), New York|Manlius]], [[New York (state)|New York]], and was its president until his death in 1904.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}} In the 1920s, St. John's became known as the renowned military school, The Manlius School, today integrated into the [[Manlius Pebble Hill School]].

He had refused the bishopric of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine when, in 1868, he was elected to the [[Episcopal Diocese of Central New York|Diocese of Central New York]]. He was consecrated on April 9, 1869, and thereafter lived in [[Syracuse, New York]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

He was the first president of the [[Church Association for the Advancement of the Interests of Labor]].<ref name="Bliss-1897">{{cite book |last1=Bliss |first1=William Dwight Porter |title=The Encyclopedia of Social Reform: Including Political Economy, Political Science, Sociology and Statistics |date=1897 |publisher=Funk & Wagnalls |page=275 |via=Internet Archive |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediofsoc00blisrich/page/275 |access-date=3 November 2022 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>

===Consecrators===
* [[Benjamin Bosworth Smith|The Most Reverend Benjamin B. Smith]]
* [[Manton Eastburn|The Right Reverend Manton Eastburn]]
* [[Horatio Potter|The Right Reverend Horatio Potter]]
'''N.B.''': [[Succession of Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States|93rd]] [[bishop]] consecrated in the [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|Episcopal Church]].

== End of life ==
Huntington remained throughout his life attached to the family's ancestral farm in [[Hadley, Massachusetts]], in the 1860s purchasing his siblings' shares so that he could inherit the house.  He continued to manage it as a working farm, and spent summers there throughout his life.  Huntington died in Hadley on July 11, 1904, aged 85.

== Publications ==

His more important publications included:{{according to whom|date=November 2014}}

* ''Lectures on Human Society'' (1860)
* ''Memorials of a Quiet Life'' (1874)
* ''The Golden Rule applied to Business and Social Conditions'' (1892)

From 1845 to 1858 he was the editor of ''The Monthly Religious Magazine,'' a Unitarian review.

== Legacy ==
Huntington's ancestral family home, the [[Porter-Phelps-Huntington House]] in Hadley, became a [[historic house museum]] in the 1940s, and is open seasonally. His daughter [[Ruth Huntington Sessions]] wrote a memoir, ''Sixty Odd'' (1936), which includes details about her childhood with Huntington.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sessions|first=Ruth Huntington|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dLBYAAAAMAAJ|title=Sixty-odd: A Personal History|date=1936|publisher=Stephen Daye Press|language=en}}</ref>

[[Huntington Hall]] at [[Syracuse University]] campus was named after him in 1964.<ref>{{cite web |title=Special Collections Research Center: Huntington Hall |url=https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center/university-archives/buildings/huntington-hall/ |website=[[Syracuse University Libraries]] |access-date=4 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Biography}}
* [[Succession of Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States|List of Bishop Succession in the Episcopal Church]]

==References==

=== Notes ===
{{Reflist}}

===Further reading===
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=V7ii9U6tV5wC&dq=christian+individuality&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 Christian Believing and Living: Sermons by Frederic Dan Huntington]'' (Harvard, 1860), Original from Harvard, digitized by google books on Oct. 19, 2006.
* ''Elim: or, Hymns of Holy Refreshment'', ed. Rev. F.D. Huntington. Boston: Dutton, 1865.
* ''Memoir and Letters of Frederic Dan Huntington'' (Boston, 1906), by [[Arria S. Huntington]], his daughter.
* ''The Episcopal Church Annual''. Morehouse Publishing: New York, NY (2005).
{{EB1911|wstitle=Huntington, Frederic Dan|volume=13|page=953}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Frederic Dan Huntington}}
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*{{Find a Grave|37566965}}
* The [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:DIV.LIB:div00120 sermons and addresses] by Frederic Dan Huntington are at the Harvard Divinity School Library at [[Harvard Divinity School]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].

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