Huntington, Frederic Dan

Huntington, Frederic Dan (1819–1904) Protestant clergyman; born in Hadley, Mass. He graduated from Amherst (1839) and attended Harvard Divinity School before accepting the pulpit of the South Congregational Church (Unitarian) in Boston in 1842. He taught at Harvard from 1855–60. In 1859 he joined the Episcopal church and served as rector of Emmanuel Church, Boston. In 1869 he became the first bishop of the newly created Diocese of Central New York. A reformer in politics, he opposed American imperial expansion and supported women's suffrage.