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.
Syracuse, New York
Review Huntington founded the Saint John"s School, a military school, in 1869 in Manlius, New York, and was its president until his death in 1904. In the 1920s, Saint 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 Diocese of Central New New York
He was consecrated on April 9, 1869, and thereafter lived in Syracuse, New New York Consecrators
The Most Reverend Benjamin B. Smith
The Right Reverend Manton Eastburn
The Right Reverend Horatio Potter
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. Huntington"s ancestral family home, the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House in Hadley, became a historic house museumin the 1940s, and is open seasonally.
