Rev. Elijah Baldwin HUNTINGTON

1816 - 1877  (61 years)

• Name	Elijah Baldwin HUNTINGTON  [1]
  	He was a member of Yale College, class of 1840, and received from tat college an honorary master's degree in 1851. He was licensed to preach, by the New London association of Congregational ministers, in 1845, and ordained to the work of the ministry, in Putnam, Conn., in 1848. He was dismissed from this charge in 1850, from vocal weakness; since which time he has been engaged in teaching. He has given one sermon and several addresses to the press, and has devoted his leisure, for years, to the preparation of this genealogical memoir. [1] By ill-health and want of means he was obliged to leave college at the beginning of the Sophomore year, but in 1851 the degree of master of Arts was conferred on him, and his name has subsequently been enrolled with his class. He taught school in Connecticut for several years, going over in the meantime the regular college studies and also pursuing a theological course, and in 1845 he was licensed to preach by the New London Association of Congregational ministers. Alter laboring for the American Bible Society, he was engaged in organizing a church in Putnam Village in Windham County, Conn., which had lately begun to form about a station of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad, and which is included in the present town of Putnam. Here he was ordained in November, 1848. His voice failing, he was dismissed from this charge after two years' service, and in the spring of 1851 became the principal of a school in West Meriden, Conn. In the fall of 1852, he was invited to Waterbury, Conn., as principal of the high school, and superintendent of the other schools of the city. He removed again in December, 1854, to Stamford, Conn., where he had charge of a public school until 1857, when he opened a private school for boys, which he continued until 1864. he then devoted himself to literary labor, residing in Stamford until April, 1876, when he became acting pastor of the congregational Church in South Coventry, Conn. He retired from this service in April, 1877, and continued a resident of the town until his death. He was prostrated by an attack of paralysis in November, 1877, and after lingering for more than a month, died Dec. 27, in the 62d year of his age. he was married, March 6, 1843, to Julia Maria, daughter of Deacon Thomas Welch, of Windham, Conn., who survives him with two children. [2]
  Prefix	Rev.
  Birth	14 Aug 1816	Bozrah, Connecticut   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 Dec 1877  [2]
  Person ID	I101777	Main Tree
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2020

  
  

  Father	Nehemiah HUNTINGTON,   b. 20 Apr 1782, Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut d. 2 Jun 1852 (Age 70 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Nancy LEFFINGWELL,   b. 15 Feb 1781, Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut d. 12 Jul 1835 (Age 54 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	8 Sep 1814  [1]
  Family ID	F490	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Julia Maria WELCH
  Marriage	6 Mar 1843  [1]
  Family ID	F518	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2020

  
  

• Sources

  [S5011] Rev. E.B. Huntington, A.M., "A Genealogical Memoir of the Huntington Family in This Country: Embracing all the known Descendants of Simon and Margaret Huntington", (Stamford, Conn,; By the Author - 1863). [S1673] Connecticut Ancestry 2020 November Vol. 63 No. 2.