Samuel Huntington (1765-1817)

Biography
The Huntington family in America says:
 * 1. 3. 4. 2. 6. 1. Samuel Huntington, born October 4, 1765, in Coventry, Conn. On the Norwich records his marriage entry calls him Samuel, 3d. He was educated by his uncle Samuel (1. 3. 4. 2. 4.), graduated at Yale, 1785, and married, December 20, 1791, Hannah (1. 3. 3. 4. 1. 2. 2.). He was admitted to the bar while in Norwich, and continued with his uncle until his decease, after which, in May, 1801, he removed to Cleveland, and in 1805 to Painesville, Ohio.


 * Here he was immediately introduced into public life, to which the remainder of his days were devoted. Gov. St. Clair appointed him lieutenant colonel of the first regiment of militia of Trumbull County. In October, 1802, the delegates of Trumbull county elected him as one of their two delegates to the convention to be held in Chilicothe on the first of the following month, to form a state constitution. By the first assembly of the state, of which he was a senator from Trumbull county, he was appointed in 1803 one of the three judges of supreme court, and in December, 1804, he was appointed chief judge by the legislature, which office he held until he was elected governor of the state in 1808. In this office he served one term, two years.


 * He was one of the original proprietors of Fairport, and aided in its founding in 1812. During the war of 1812-14, he was paymaster in the northwest army. He was tendered the office of receiver of public moneys at Steubenville, by President Jefferson, and also that of judge in the territory of Michigan, both of which he declined. He died, June 8, 1817, and his widow November 29, 1818.

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