Charles W. Huntington


Charles White Huntington was a notable Congregational clergyman.

Early life and education

He was born in 1854 to Charles Thomas Huntington and Sarah White in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
He attended the Williston Seminary, and graduated from Williams College in 1876. He was a member of the Kappa Alpha Society and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He attended Harvard Law School from 1876–77, and Andover Theological Seminary from 1878–81.

Ministry

He was ordained in 1881, and served as a minister in Ellsworth, Maine, Central Congregational Church in Providence, Rhode Island, High Street Church in Lowell, Massachusetts, Central Congregational Church in Toledo, Ohio, then in Newton, Massachusetts, Waltham, Massachusetts, and Boston. He was in Claremont, California in 1915. In 1919, he was involved in the Unitarian Church.
He received a D.D. degree from Williams in 1901. He was a trustee at the Bradford Academy in Bradford, Massachusetts.
In 1933, he preached the chapel sermon at the 100th Anniversary of the Kappa Alpha Society, at Williams College.

Family life

He married Delia Frances Bliss on November 16, 1881. She died in 1910, and he married Emma Hall Ellis in 1913.