Born: May 28, 1819, Hadley, Massachusetts.
Died: July 11, 1904, Hadley, Massachusetts.
Buried: Old Hadley Cemetery, Hadley, Massachusetts.
Frederic was the son of Daniel Huntington and Elizabeth Whiting Phelps, husband of Hannah Dane Sargent (married 1843), and uncle of William Huntington.
He graduated from Amherst College in 1839, and Cambridge Divinity School in 1842.
He served as a Unitarian minister in Boston, Massachusetts, until 1855, when he became Professor of Christian Morals and University Preacher at Harvard University.
In 1859, he was ordained an Episcopal priest. He was for some time a rector in Boston, Massachusetts.
After previously declining the bishopric of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine, he became the first bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Central New York in 1869.
Also in 1869, Huntington founded St. John’s School, a military school in Manlius, New York (later integrated into the Manlius Pebble Hill School), and served as its president until his death.
He also served as first president of the Church Association for the Advancement of the Interests of Labor (founded 1887).
In 1964, Syracuse University named Huntington Hall after him.