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DWIGHT WILLIAMS HUNTINGTON
DWIGHT WILLIAMS HUNTINGTON was born August 9, 1851 and married, on April 9, 1890, in New York City, NY, Mary Josephine, daughter of Charles Edmund and Josephine (Marsh) Shade. She was born October 4, 1865, in New York City.
He graduated from Yale College in 1873. He studied law in Cincinnati, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1875, and practiced in that city, with some success, for many years. In the spring of 1881 he conducted the Republican campaign in Cincinnati, as chairman of the city committee. In the autumn of the same year he was elected by a large majority to the Ohio House of Representatives. His term lasted two years, and on several occasions he presided over the deliberations of the House. In 1885 he was nominated by the Republicans for prosecuting attorney of Hamilton County, but his opponent got the office.
He was always interested in field sports and natural history, and wrote and published some works on those subjects, illustrated by himself, and, by 1901, had made many landscapes and pictures of the shooting fields in water color. Ultimately be abandoned the practice of law to devote himself to art. He lived in Yonkers, NY. in 1915.
CHILDREN
- JOSEPHINE, born April 27, 1891, in Cincinnati, OH.
- JOHN CALDWELL was born July 7, 1894, in Fernbank, OH., and married September 27, 1918, Grace Young Crocker., daughter of William A. and Carrie E. Crocker. She was born January 28, 1898 in North Yonkers, NY. In 1962 he was with "The Game Breeder," and they were living in Lynbrook, NY. They were the parents of GRACE CROCKER, JOHN CALDWELL, and WILLIAM CROCKER. He was a Captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He died Oct. 22, 1969, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.
- DWIGHT WILLIAMS was born June 16, 1896, in Fernbank, OH., and married in July 1920, Alice, daughter of Thomas and Louise (Hohrein) Dunbar. She was born April 28, 1896. He served with the 90th Div. U.S. Infantry, at St. Michiel and was wounded in action in the Meuse-Argonne. He was discharged in May of 1919. He and Alice were the parents of LOUISE DUNBAR, and DWIGHT WILLIAMS, III. He died Feb. 23, 1950 in Los Angeles, CA.
- CLARA LOUISE, born June 29, 1901, in Ligonier, PA.
Sketch a combination of those found in 1915 Genealogical Memoir, theFirst Supplement, and the Second Supplement, published by the
Huntington Family
Association.
Dwight Williams is H.N. 1.3.3.3.2.6.6.2.
Last updated 22 Aug 1998 by Sara (Huntington) Abbott
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