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. In 1843 he married Hannah Sargent, the sister of
Epes Sargent. From 1842 to 1855 he was pastor of the South Congregational Church of
Boston, and in 1855-1860 as preacher to the university and Plummer professor of Christian Morals at Harvard; he then left the
Unitarian Church, with which his father had been connected as a clergyman at Hadley, resigned his professorship and became rector of the newly established
Emmanuel Church of Boston.
Syracuse, New York on Syracuse University campus. Rev. Huntington founded the St. John's School, a
military school, in 1869 in
Manlius,
New York, and was its president until his death in 1904. In the 1920s, St. 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 York. He was consecrated on April 9, 1869, and thereafter lived in
Syracuse, New York. He was the first president of the
Church Association for the Advancement of the Interests of Labor.
Consecrators •
The Most Reverend Benjamin B. Smith •
The Right Reverend Manton Eastburn •
The Right Reverend Horatio Potter N.B.:
93rd bishop consecrated in the
Episcopal Church. == End of life ==