Elias DeWitt Huntley

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Elias DeWitt Huntley

Elias Dewitt Huntley (19 April 1840 – 12 February 1909) was a

Chaplain of the Senate
.

Early life

Elias Dewitt Huntley, was born April 19, 1840, in Elmira, New York, the son of Frances Tooker and Elias Sanford Huntley. He graduated from Genesee College (1866).[1]

Ministry

He was ordained the same year he graduated and began his ministry by preaching in the Nunda circuit in New York State. Then, he became a professor of ancient languages at Genesee Wesleyan Seminary. After that he went to Wisconsin and served as presiding elder of the Madison district before becoming president of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin (1879–1883).[1]

He became pastor of the Metropolitan church in

Chaplain of the Senate (1883–1886).[2]

In 1886, he served the Madison Avenue Methodist church in

Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1893–1895), and Trinity Church, Washington DC (1897-1900).[1]

Huntley died on February 12, 1909, in Washington, D.C.[3]

Personal life

Huntley married Amelia H. Elmore of Milwaukee; their sons George and Sherman did not survive childhood.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States, Volume 4, by John Howard Brown, p. 262
  2. ^ a b Alumni Record And General Catalogue of Syracuse University, Volume 1, by Syracuse University
  3. ^ familysearch.org
Religious titles
Preceded by
47th US Senate Chaplain

December 18, 1883 – March 15, 1886
Succeeded by