Frederic Dan Huntington (May 28, 1819 - July 11, 1904), American clergyman, first Protestant Episcopal bishop of central New York, was born in Hadley, Massachusetts.
He graduated at Amherst in 1839 and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1842. In 1842-1855 he was pastor of the South Congregational Church of Boston, and in 1855-1260 ~as preacher to the university and Plummer professor of Christian Morals at Harvard; he then left the Unitarian Church, with which his father had been connected as a clergyman at Hadley, resigned his professorship and became pastor of the newly established Emmanuel Church of Boston.
He had refused the bishopric of Maine when in 1868 he was elected to the diocese of central New York. He was consecrated on April 9, 1269, and thereafter lived in Syracuse. He died in Hadley, Massachusetts, on the 11th of July 1904.
His more important paublications were Lectures on Human Society (1860); Memorials of a Quiet Life (1874); and The Golden Rule applied to Business and Social Conditions (1892).
See Memoir and Letters of Frederic Dan Huntington (Boston, 1906), by Arria S Huntington, his wife.