biography
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Huntington, Frederic Dan
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1819–1904)
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| biography:
| Protestant clergyman, born in Hadley, Massachusetts, USA. He graduated from Amherst (1839) and attended Harvard Divinity School before accepting the pulpit of the South Congregational Church (Unitarian) in Boston (1842). He taught at Harvard (1855–60), and in 1859 joined the Episcopal church and served as rector of Emmanuel Church, Boston. In 1869 he became the first bishop of the newly created Diocese of Central New York. A reformer in politics, he opposed American imperial expansion and supported women's suffrage. |
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