Clark Allen Huntington (1831-1897)

Biography
The Huntington family in America says:
 * 1.2.6.3.1.7.1.3.1. Clark Allen Huntington, born December 6, 1831, in Watertown, N.Y.; married, in 1852, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Rosanna Galloway. He was a stockman, and was one of the Pony Express riders who helped to bring companies of emigrants across the Plains, before the building of the U.P.R.R. On one of those trips he showed his heroism by carrying hundreds of emigrants across the icy waters of the Sweetwater River in Wyoming, breaking the ice before them as they waded from shore to shore. He lived in Watertown, N. Y., till May 1836, then in Kirtland, O., till 1838, in Nauvoo, Ill., till 1845, then moved west to Utah, where he died in Salina, Utah, about 1900.


 * Mrs. Huntington died in California. They belonged to the Church of Latter Day Saints.

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