Elias DeWitt Huntley
Elias Dewitt Huntley (19 April 1840 – 12 February 1909) was a
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
In 1886, he served the Madison Avenue Methodist church in
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]