Elisha Hyde Huntington (1803 - 1857)

Born 3 Dec 1803 in Bozrah

Ancestors

Husband of Phebe White — married 19 Sep 1825 in Geneva, New York, United States

Died 15 Jan 1857 at age 53 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

Biography

Elisha was born in 1803. He is the son of Christopher Huntington and Lucy Culver.

His early life was spent in his native town, in the family of a hard working farmer, where he acquired habits of industry and economy. But he was too ambitious to delve long amongthe stony fields of Bozrah, and tried his fortune at shoe making, with his elder brother, in Hartford. Again he made an attempt in Schenectady, N. Y., and in a few months removed to Geneva, where lie married, Sept. 19, 1825, Phebe White. Remaining here about three years, he went to Canandaigua, where he lived about the same time, when he removed to his permanent home in Penn Yan. He was a man of unusual activity and energy in business, knowing no such word as fail.

For the last three or four years of his life he was engaged in busine:s in Chicago, III. He was, also, president of the Mercantile Bank, at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. He was attacked with paralysis, on the 6th of Jan. 1857, in Chicago, where he died on the 15th of the same month. His remains were inter- red in Penn Yan, where his family had continued to reside."

Sources

• "Public Member Trees", database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/71091048/person/160001709648/facts : accessed 23 January 2018), profile for Elisha Hyde Huntington.
• North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000

A genealogical memoir of the Huntington family in this country : embracing all the known descendant