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Huntington, Frederic Dan

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Huntington, Frederic Dan (1819-1904)

US clergyman who in 1859 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 US imperial expansion and supported women's suffrage.

Born in Hadley, Massachusetts, he graduated from Amherst in 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 to 1860.



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