Author: DeWitt Clinton Huntington

Rv DeWitt Clinton Huntington  USA  1830-1912. Born at Townsend, VT, one of nine siblings, he attended Syracuse University, NY, and was ordained a Methodist Episcopal minister in 1853.  He married Frances Harriett Davis in 1853, and they had three children: Charles, Thomas, and Horace.  After her death in 1866, he married Mary Elizabeth Moore in 1868, and they had a daughter, Mary Frances.  He pastored in Rochester, NY, (1861-71 & 1876-79), Syracuse, NY, (1873-76), Olean, NY, (1885-89), Bradford, PA, (1882-85 & 1889-91), and Lincoln, NE, (1891-96), where he became a Methodist District Superintendent of relief work.  At his pastorate he also personally designed and oversaw construction of a brick sanctuary seating over 1100 people.  A depress… 
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