Introduction

Biography

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.

Works

• Hymns for the Church of Christ, with Fred­er­ic Hedge (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Cros­by, Ni­chols, 1853)
• Christian Be­liev­ing and Liv­ing: Ser­mons, 1860
• Lectures on Hu­man So­ci­ety, 1860
• Elim: Hymns of Ho­ly Re­fresh­ment (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: E. P. Dut­ton, 1866)
• Memorial of a Qui­et Life, 1874
• The Gold­en Rule Ap­plied to Bu­si­ness and So­cial Con­di­tions, 1892