Huntington, Henry William

1789-1854

Henry William Huntington - the eldest child of the Hon. Hezekiah Huntington, a distinguished lawyer of Suffield, Connecticut, and grandson of John and Mehetabel (Steele)Huntington, of Tolland, was born in Suffield on August 16,1789. His mother was Susannah, daughter of Elihu and Susannah(Lyman) Kent, of Suffield.

Henry was prepared for college by his pastor, the Rev Ebenezer Gay. During the first three years of his college life he wrote his name William Henry Huntington. He studied law after graduation, and in 1816 was admitted to the bar in Hartford, but practiced there for only a few months.

He settled in Trinity, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, about twenty-five miles west of Natchez, where he became a planter. He married, on April 24, 1817, Helen, daughter of the late William Dunbar, of Natchez, by whom he had six daughters and four sons.

He died in Trinity on October 12, 1854, in his 66th year.

source: Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale College : with annals of the college historyNew York: H. Holt and Co., 1885-1912