Background
Huntington was the son of William and Zina Baker Huntington. He was born at Watertown, Jefferson County, New New York
Huntington was the son of William and Zina Baker Huntington. He was born at Watertown, Jefferson County, New New York
He also commissioned the Church History Panorama of Creative Commons A. Christensen to use in his presentations of the gospel to the Native Americans. Huntington married Fanny Marie Allen on April 28, 1830, they eventually had seven children. Huntington also took Smith the four miles distance to the house where Emma Smith was staying.
In March 1841, Huntington was appointed one of the constables of Nauvoo, Illinois.
In October 1841, Huntington brought the testimony that led to the excommunication of John A. Hicks, the elders quorum president in Nauvoo, for falsehood and schismatic conversation. In 1842, Huntington was made coroner of Nauvoo.
After Joseph Smith"s death, Huntington was among those who prepared Joseph and Hyrum Smith"s bodies for burial and buried them in a secret location underneath the Nauvoo House. His family had come with him and they went to Pueblo, Colorado.
One of Fanny"s children was born there on January 1, 1847.
Huntington was also among the first settlers of Provo, Utah. Huntington was the first Indian interpreter in Utah Territory. In 1855, he negotiated a peace with the Utes in the vicinity of Fillmore, Utah.
In 1857, Huntington was closely associated with teaching the gospel to many Native Americans, and kept a journal of his activities.
Among other things he recorded Brigham Young ordaining Tutsegabit and elder on September 10, 1857. In 1868, Huntington was among those who negotiated the end of Utah"s Black Hawk War.
Huntington worked as a blacksmith and was also drum-major of the Nauvoo Legion band. He later held a similar position with a band in Salt Lake City.
Foreign the last several years of his life, Huntington served as patriarch of the Salt Lake Stake.
Huntington was one of the members of Parley P. Pratt"s company that explored southern Utah in 1849.
