* 1731 – Samuel Huntington, American politician, 3rd Governor of Connecticut and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ( d. 1796 )

* Samuel Huntington, Governor of Connecticut

Huntington was an influential member of the Connecticut leadership class ( called " the Standing Order "); he allowed scores of embargoed vessels to depart for foreign ports under the guise of " special permission.

* Ebenezer Huntington, United States Representative from Connecticut

* Jabez Huntington ( colonist ), a merchant of Connecticut Colony

* Jabez W. Huntington, United States Representative and United States Senator from Connecticut

* Huntington, Connecticut

Jekyll's series of thematic gardening books emphasized the importance and value of natural plantings and were influential in the U. S. In 1913 Beatrix married Max Farrand, the accomplished historian at Stanford University in California and Yale University in Connecticut, and the first director of the Huntington Library in California.

Samuel Huntington ( January 5, 1796 ) was a jurist, statesman, and Patriot in the American Revolution from Connecticut.

Samuel was born to Nathaniel and Mehetabel Huntington on July 16, 1731 in Windham, Connecticut ( his birthplace is now in Scotland, Connecticut, which broke off from Windham ).

After brief service as a selectman, Huntington began his political career in earnest in 1764 when Norwich sent him as one of their representatives to the lower house of the Connecticut Assembly.

Huntington remained as President of Congress until July 9, 1781, when ill health forced him to resign and return to Connecticut.

Because Huntington was the President of the Continental Congress when the Articles of Confederation were ratified, some amateur historians and civic groups in Connecticut have claimed that Huntington was actually the first President of the United States.

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Samuel Huntington is also known for being the 3rd Governor of Connecticut and the 7th President of the Continental Congress.

Because Huntington was populated largely by English settlers, unlike the rest of the New Amsterdam colony, the town voted in 1660 to become part of the Connecticut colony rather than remain under the authority of New Amsterdam.

He served again as an Indian Commissioner, and was elected Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut in 1786, assuming the Governorship on the death of Samuel Huntington in 1796, and was reelected to the position, dying in office at the age of seventy-one in Farmington, Connecticut.

Formerly of New Haven, Connecticut, it is now based in Huntington Beach, California.

Joseph Huntington and later at the Master Tisdale's School in Lebanon, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale College in 1781.

Collis Potter Huntington was born in Harwinton, Connecticut, USA on October 22, 1821.

Collis Huntington was the son of William and Elizabeth ( Vincent ) Huntington ; born October 22, 1821, in Harwinton, Connecticut ; he married, first, on September 16, 1844, Elizabeth T. Stoddard, of Cornwall, Connecticut.

On September 23, 1993, a statue dedicated to him was unveiled by Northeastern University on the site of the Red Sox's original stadium, the Huntington Avenue Grounds.

It was financed and built through " The Big Four " ( who called themselves " The Associates "): Sacramento, California businessmen Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins.

Before the Act was passed, on February 8, 1914 The New York Times published an article entitled " Negro Cocaine ' Fiends ' Are New Southern Menace: Murder and Insanity Increasing Among Lower-Class Blacks " by Edward Huntington Williams which reported that Southern sheriffs had increased the caliber of their weapons from. 32 to. 38 to bring down Negroes under the effect of cocaine.

The film, financed by supermarket heir Huntington Hartford, was the story of a man in a Texas jail falsely accused of rape and the woman who cleans the jail.

" In 1945 she married her second husband, Huntington D Sheldon, at the close of the war on her assignment in Paris and she was discharged from the military in 1946, at which time she set up a small business in partnership with her husband.

He saw the company through both world wars, became a noted community leader, and was a co-founder of the Mariners ' Museum with Archer Huntington.

This version was screened publicly numerous times, including at the University of Washington in 1996 ; at least two presentations by American Cinematheque ; once by the American Museum of the Moving Image ; at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, Texas ; by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, in New York City ; and once at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, NY.

In 1886, railroad magnate Collis Potter Huntington founded Newport News Shipbuilding, which was responsible for building six major World War I-era battleships for the U. S. Navy from 1907 – 1923.

This reorganization was engineered in large part by Secretary of State Knox's First Assistant Secretary, Huntington Wilson, who served as de facto Secretary of State due to the frequent absence of Knox.

On June 26, 1999, Robert Skotheim, then the president of the Huntington Library, announced that the Library was to permanently lend the Nuremberg Laws to the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

The Huntington Creek was originally called San Marcus.

Climatic Determinism was intensely studied by Ellsworth Huntington.

The Newport News Waterworks was begun as a project of Collis P. Huntington as part of the development of the lower peninsula with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, the coal piers on the harbor of Hampton Roads, and massive shipyard which were the major sources of industrial growth which helped found Newport News as a new independent city in 1896.

During Reconstruction, the period after the American Civil War, the new City of Newport News was essentially founded by California merchant Collis P. Huntington.

West of the traditional downtown area, another early portion of the city was developed as Huntington Heights.

The Newport News Waterworks was begun as a project of Collis P. Huntington as part of the development of the lower peninsula with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, the coal piers on the harbor of Hampton Roads, and massive shipyard which were the major sources of industrial growth which helped found Newport News as a new independent city in 1896.

The Green Room ( a. k. a. The Fabulous Green Room ) was a popular recording studio located in Huntington Beach, California.

The first permanent settlement in modern-day Huntington was founded in 1775 as " Holderby's Landing.

" The city of Huntington was named for Collis P. Huntington, who built it as the western terminus for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( C & O ) on the land west of the mouth of the Guyandotte River at the Ohio River.

Huntington was incorporated in 1871 just West of the earlier city of Guyandotte.

Guyandotte, which became a neighborhood of Huntington in 1891, was founded in 1799 on land that was originally part of the French and Indian War veteran's Savage Grant.

Huntington County was formed in 1832.