Huntington family

John Trumbull's painting, Declaration of Independence, depicting the five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress. The painting can be found on the back of the U.S. $2 bill. The original hangs in the US Capitol rotunda. Samuel Huntington, as one of the signers is featured.

The Declaration of Independence. Signed July 4, 1776.

Huntington is the surname of three prominent families from the United States of America. The first was active in the eastern region; the second played an important role in the early Latter Day Saint movement, and pioneered and founded the State of Utah with Brigham Young; the third was active on both coasts and the regions linking them. All three lines descend from Simon Huntington and his wife, Margaret Baret Huntington,^[1] who emigrated to America from Norwich, England, in 1633.^[2]

Political Huntingtons[]

Huntingtons involved in American politics from the 18th & 19th centuries include

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  The signatures on the Declaration of Independence
  Samuel Huntington (Scotland, Connecticut 1731–1796), Connecticut Superior Court Judge 1773–1785, Patriot in the American Revolution, Founding Father and Signer of the Declaration of Independence, President of and Delegate to the Continental Congress from Connecticut 1776–1784, Deputy Governor of Connecticut 1784–1786, Governor of Connecticut 1786–1796. Uncle and adoptive father of Samuel H. Huntington.^[3]
• Jedediah Huntington (or Jedidiah Huntington) (Norwich, Connecticut August 4, 1743 – September 25, 1818), was an American brigadier general who served under General George Washington in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he served in numerous civilian posts.
• Ebenezer Huntington (December 26, 1754 – June 17, 1834) was an officer in the Continental Army and is depicted as one of the officers of General Washington's Army in John Trumbull's Surrender of Lord Cornwallis. He served as a United States Representative from Connecticut after the war.
• Jabez Huntington (7 August 1719 – 5 October 1786) was a merchant and politician from Connecticut Colony. Jabez Huntington graduated from Yale in 1741, engaged in the West India trade, and amassed a fortune. After 1759 he was frequently a member of the legislature, speaker for several years, and also a member of the council.
• Jabaz W. Huntington (Norwich, Connecticut November 8, 1788 – November 1, 1847) was a United States Representative and Senator from Connecticut.
• Samuel H. Huntington (1765–1817), delegate to the Ohio Constitutional Convention 1802, Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court 1803–1808, Governor of Ohio 1808–1810. Nephew of and adoptive son of Samuel Huntington.^[4]
• Elisha Mills Huntington (1806–1862), Indiana United States Representative 1832–1836, Indiana Circuit Court Judge 1837–1841, Judge of the U.S. District Court of Indiana 1842–1862, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1860. Descendant of Samuel Huntington.^[5]
• Nathaniel Huntington, Indiana United States Representative 1827–1828. Brother of Elisha Mills Huntington.^[6]
• Arria Sargent Huntington (1848-1921) the first woman elected to public office in Syracuse, New York.
• Pelatiah Webster Huntington, was a well-known political economist, author, and teacher during the late 1700s.
• Pelatiah Webster Huntington, named after the well known economist, was the founder of Huntington Bancshares, largest bank by market share in Columbus, Ohio.

Placename honors[]

Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull hanging in the US Capitol Rotunda featuring Ebenezer Huntington.

• The Huntington Homestead Museum,^[7] Scotland, Connecticut
• Huntington, New York
• Huntington Bay, New York
• Huntington Harbor Lighthouse, New York
• Huntington Yacht Club,^[8] New York
• Huntington, Massachusetts
• Huntington Avenue, after Ralph Huntington (1784–1866), in Boston, Massachusetts
• Huntington Avenue American League Baseball Grounds, Boston, Massachusetts
• Huntington, Indiana
• Huntington County, Indiana

Industrialists, business persons, and philanthropists[]

East Meets West. The ceremony for the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869; completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Oliver Boardman Huntington and Zina Diantha Huntington pioneered and founded Utah State which created the infrastructure and conditions for their cousins Collis Potter Huntington and Henry Edward Huntington's success.

Huntingtons involved in American railroads, shipping, real estate, politics, mining, oil and extraction, arts patronage, and philanthropy since the 19th century include:

• Collis Potter Huntington (Harwinton, Connecticut 1821–1900) and Arabella Duval Huntington (Union Springs, Alabama or Richmond, Virginia c. 1850–1924) Real estate investor, philanthropist and art and jewelry collector, abolitionist and suffragette known as "America's Wealthiest Woman" during the Gilded Age; Collis Huntington was one of the Big Four, also known as "The Associates", of the First Transcontinental Railroad, the Central Pacific, and include the Southern Pacific, Chesapeake and Ohio U.S. railroads and Newport News shipping industries.^[9][10] Through railroads, shipping, real estate, mining, oil, extraction, and art, rare book and jewelry collections, it is estimated that Collis and his cousin Henry amassed a fortune of between 30 and 50 billion dollars (adjusted for inflation and valuation, 2018). Collis and Arabella were abolitionists married by Henry Ward Beecher and supported Booker T. Washington through funding Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University) and Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). Upon his death, Arabella financed the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Building^[11] at Tuskegee University which was dedicated to supporting one of the first programs educating black women and is still in use today.
• Henry Edward Huntington (Oneonta, NY 1850–1927) and widowed Arabella Duval Huntington (c. 1850–1924); railroad magnate, Newport News Shipbuilding, Pacific Electric Railway, California state real estate developer where he founded, developed and incorporated holdings in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Huntington Beach and Orange County; botanical gardens developer and art and rare book collector; Henry was a native of Oneonta, NY and donated his former family homestead in Oneonta to become Huntington Memorial Library^[12] and park.^[13] Henry and Arabella are founders of The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California which is where they are buried.^[14]
• Archer Milton Huntington (1870–1955; See The Hispanic Society of America, Audubon Terrace, Mariners' Museum) Philanthropist, poet, Hispanic scholar, art collector and patron, museum and botanical gardens developer and Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876–1973) American sculptor (See Brookgreen Gardens & Atalaya Castle).^[15] Archer founded and developed The Hispanic Society of America, Audubon Terrace and the Newport News Mariners' Museum projects as well as acting as a major benefactor for the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Numismatic Society. His early education was almost wholly independent, not unlike his father Collis and cousin Henry (Ed) and in early childhood he was educated through private tutors and extensive travel in Europe; he later would earn honorary degrees including a doctorate from Yale University as a Hispanic scholar and poet. Archer, with his wife Anna, built Atalaya Castle and Brookgreen Gardens, both of which were donated upon his death to the State of South Carolina. The nearly 10,000-acre parcel and two estates now comprise Huntington Beach State Park which focuses on wetland and habitat conversation.
• Helen Dinsmore Huntington (1893-1976); American socialite, arts patron and political hostess. Descendant of the Huntington and Dinsmore families, who had adjoining Hudson River estates, Helen Huntington married Vincent Astor in 1914, and became a leader of New York society. In 2004 Andre Balazs acquired her family estate, The Locusts, once the setting for many of her soirees.

"The Huntington" Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California was built by Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Duval Huntington. (Exterior Main Building)

Placename honors[]

• Collis P. Huntington State Park, Redding, Connecticut^[16]
• Huntington Free Library and Reading Room – The Bronx, New York
• Huntington Memorial Library,^[17] Oneonta, New York
• The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, in San Marino, California^[18]
• Huntington Beach, California
• Huntington Park, California
• Huntington Lake, California
• Huntington Hospital,^[19] Pasadena, California
• Huntington Hotel [now the Langham Huntington Hotel] Pasadena, California
• Huntington Hotel, San Francisco, California
• Huntington, Texas
• Huntington, West Virginia
• Collis P. Huntington Historical Society and Railroad Museum,^[20] Huntington, West Virginia
• Huntington Park, Virginia
• Huntington Ingalls Industries, Newport News, Virginia
• Collis P. Huntington High School, Newport News, Virginia
• Collis P. Huntington Memorial Building,^[21] Tuskegee University, Alabama
• Huntington Beach State Park, South Carolina

Utah Pioneer Huntingtons[]

Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs Smith Young an American social activist and religious leader who served as the third general president of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1888 until her death.

Huntingtons involved in founding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the State of Utah[]

• Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs Smith Young (Watertown, NY, 1821–1901) American Social Activist and suffragette, wife of Joseph Smith (founder of the Latter Day Saint movement) and Brigham Young (second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)), she served as second (co-president) and third president of the LDS Relief Society. Zina Diantha Huntington's father, William Huntington, was an early leader of the LDS Church, and she accompanied the Brigham Young Company expedition in pioneering and founding the State of Utah, along with her brothers, including Oliver Boardman Huntington,^[22] who acted as a scout for the Brigham Young Company. She was polyandrous and was married to her husbands Jacobs and Smith at the same time; upon Smith's death, she married Brigham Young.

Placename honors[]

• Huntington, Utah
• Huntington State Park, Utah
• Huntington North Dam, Utah

Political Huntingtons in the 20th and 21st centuries[]

Huntingtons involved in political science and politics in the 20th and 21st centuries[]

• Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927 – December 24, 2008) was an American political scientist, adviser and academic. He spent more than half a century at Harvard University, where he was director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs and the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor. During the Presidency of Jimmy Carter, Huntington was the White House Coordinator of Security Planning for the National Security Council. He is best known for his 1993 theory, the "Clash of Civilizations", of a post-Cold War new world order.

Science, technology and artist Huntingtons[]

Huntingtons who made contributions to science, technology, medicine, art, architecture and social activism in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries[]

• Dr. George Huntington (April 9, 1850 – March 3, 1916) was an American physician who contributed a classic clinical description of the disease that bears his name – Huntington's disease.
• Charles Pratt Huntington (1871–1919) was an American architect best known for designing Audubon Terrace and several of its original buildings for his cousin Archer Milton Huntington in the early 20th century.
• Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876–1973) was an American sculptor and was once among New York City's most prominent sculptors whose sculptures adorn Audubon Terrace which was built by Archer Milton Huntington.
• Ellsworth Huntington was an American geographer and professor of geography at Yale University during the early 20th century, known for his studies on environmental determinism | climatic determinism, economic growth and economic geography. He authored The Secret of the Big Trees: Yosemite Sequoia and General Grant National Parks (1921).
• The Lawrence S. Huntington Environmental Prize,^[23] which was established at Woods Hole Research Center, recognizes leaders who advance and promote research and communication on climate, earth sciences, and conservation. Prize recipients recognize the interrelationships of global systems and think on a planetary scale. Huntington formerly lead the WHRC; the Huntington Environmental Prize was named in his honor and is awarded every two years. Dr. John P. Holdren, who served under President Barack Obama as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) was the 2017 Huntington Prize recipient.

Huntingtons in popular culture[]

• Huntington Beach California, known as "Surf City", is home of the U.S. Open of Surfing, International Surfing Museum and the Surfer's Hall of Fame.
• In 1906 Archer Huntington sold the New York City Huntington family mansion, built by Collis and Arabella Huntington, which was located on Fifth Avenue & 57th Street, later the site of the Tiffany & Co. flagship store.
• The artwork and architectural design details and contents of Collis and Arabella's Fifth Avenue & 57th Street family mansion were donated by Archer Huntington to Yale University and Yale University Art Gallery.^[24][25]
• Harry Winston launched his career as a luxury jeweler by purchasing Arabella Huntington's jewelry collection upon her death from Archer Huntington and redesigning it. Harry Winston's creations are frequently displayed at the annual Met Gala.
• Collis Huntington bequeathed 135 paintings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art comprising The Huntington Collection.
• Arabella Huntington's 4 West & 54th Street home (off of 5th Avenue), which she sold to John D. Rockefeller in 1884, is now the garden at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).
• Collis and Arabella Huntington's NYC Throgs Neck waterfront mansion and estate became Preston High School; notable alumni include Jennifer Lopez.
• Collis and Arabella Huntington purchased Camp Pine Knot, the first of the Adirondacks "Great Camps" from William West Durant; Archer Huntington donated the Great Camp Pine Knot and Camp Arbutus and approximately 15,000 acres of The Huntington Wildlife Forest to SUNY Cortland where it was renamed Camp Huntington; Camp Huntington's education mission and focus is environmental and habitat conservation and protection of the Adirondacks region.
• The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, founded by Henry and Arabella Huntington, acquired the Burndy Library and the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) making it one of the largest history of science and technology archives in the world. The Huntington is also home to First Editions of Sir Isaac Newton's treatises and his Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles), 1687.
• The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens is home to the second largest collection of William Shakespeare folios in the United States [the Folger Shakespeare Library has the largest collection]. Henry Huntington acquired Shakespeare's First Folio (1623), along with a 1611 edition of the Hamlet soliloquy, "To Be or Not To Be", and many other Shakespeare manuscripts and memorabilia.
• American novelist, Harriet Huntington Doerr, author of Stones for Ibarra, was the grand daughter of Henry E. Huntington; she wrote the novel at age 74, and it was her debut novel.
• Robert Palmer Huntington Jr. (January 15, 1869 – March 12, 1949) American Tennis Player U.S National Championships Winner in Men's Doubles Grand Slam Tennis titles, 1891, 1892 with partner Oliver Campbell
• The Huntington Avenue American League Baseball Grounds is the full name of the baseball stadium that formerly stood in Boston, Massachusetts, and was the first home field for the Boston Red Sox (known informally as the 'Boston Americans' until 1908) from 1901–1911. The stadium, built for $35,000 (equivalent to $1.05 million in 2018), was located on what is now Northeastern University, at the time across the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad tracks from the South End Grounds, home of the Boston Braves. The stadium was the site of the first World Series game between the modern American and National leagues in 1903, and also saw the first perfect game in the modern era, thrown by Cy Young on May 5, 1904.
• We Are Marshall: a 2006 American historical drama biopic depicts the aftermath of the 1970 plane crash that killed 75 people: 37 football players on the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team, along with five coaches, two athletic trainers, the athletic director, 25 boosters, and a crew of five. The film starring Matthew McConaughey is set in Huntington, West Virginia which was founded by Collis P. Huntington.
• Hell on Wheels: Collis P. Huntington was played by Tim Guinee

See also[]

• List of United States political families
• Huntington Bancshares

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