Background
He was born 20 January 1815, in New York City, the son of Benjamin Huntington Junior. and Faith Trumbull Huntington.
He was born 20 January 1815, in New York City, the son of Benjamin Huntington Junior. and Faith Trumbull Huntington.
He entered Yale College and later the University of New York, where he graduated in 1835. He then studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, received his degree in 1838, but never practised his profession. During the three years following he was professor of mental philosophy in Saint Paul"s Episcopal school near Flushing, L. I., and at the same time studied for the ministry under William Augustus Muhlenberg.
He died 10 March 1862, at Pau, France. He received his early education at home and at an Episcopalian private school. At the end of five years he resigned because of doubts about his religious position, and went to Europe.
The next three years he spent mostly in England and in Rome.
He left England apparently a firm believer in the Anglican theory of the "Via media". The authority of Rome outside the British possessions he readily accepted.
Returning to America he lectured before learned associations in several of the large cities. He became editor of the Metropolitan Magazine, a Catholic periodical published in Baltimore, and later edited The Leader published in Saint Louis.
Each proved a failure.
His life was, however, a literary life, and fairly successful. The last few years of his life were spent at Pau, in the south of France, where he died of pulmonary tuberculosis in his forty-eighth year.