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Huntington (FREDERIC DAN an American)

FREDERIC DAN, an American clergyman; born in Hadley, Mass., May 28, 1819. In early life as a Unitarian minister he held a pastorate in Boston from 1842 to 1855, when he became Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in Harvard University. In 1860 he withdrew from the Unitarian denomination, was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in 1869 was consecrated Bishop of Central New York. His writings include: "Christian Believing and Living" (1860); "Steps to a Living Faith" (1873); "Personal Christian Life in the Ministry" (1887); "Forty Days with the Master" (1891). He died at Hadley, Mass., July 11, 1904.