HUNTINGTON, Elisha, physician, born in Topsfield, Massachusetts, 9 April, 1796; died in Lowell, Massachusetts, 10 December, 1865. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1815 and from Yale medical school in 1823. He practised in Lowell with great success, and was for eight years mayor of that city. He was lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in 1853, and was at one time president of the Massachusetts medical society. Dr. Huntington published addresses and a "Memoir of Professor Elisha Bartlett" (Lowell, 1856).--His son, William Reed, clergyman, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, 20 September, 1838, was graduated at Harvard in 1859, and was temporary instructor in chemistry there in 1859-'60. He then entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, was assistant rector of Emmanuel church, Boston, in 1861-'2, rector of All Saints' church, Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1862-'83, and in the latter year accepted a call to Grace church, New York city. Columbia gave him the degree of D. D. in 1873. He was class poet at Harvard in 1859, and Phi Beta Kappa poet there in 1870. Besides papers on liturgical revision in the United States, he has published "The Church Idea, an Essay toward Unity" (New York, 1870), and "Conditional Immortality" (1878). Among his later pamphlets is " The Book Annexed, its Critics and its Prospects" (1886).