Rev. Elijah Baldwin HUNTINGTON

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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.

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.

Elijah married Julia Maria WELCH on 6 Mar 1843. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was for many of his earlier years an invalid, so much so that he lost almost entirely the yers usually devoted to education. But he was characterized through life for his sterling good sense and judgment, and still ore for his gentle and kind heart. If any thing else was needed to render him beloved and esteemed, and trusted by all who knew him, it was his strict conscientiousness. He seemed to feel no other motive than duty; and how faithful he was to every conviction of duty, they best knew who saw him most.

Nehemiah married Nancy LEFFINGWELL on 8 Sep 1814. Nancy (daughter of Elisha LEFFINGWELL and Alice TRACY) was born on 15 Feb 1781 in Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut; died on 12 Jul 1835. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Elisha Leffingwell and Alice Tracy