SAMANTHA M.* HUNTINGTON, was born May 14, 1816 at Burlington Flattes, New York to Ephriam and Fannie (Johnson) Huntington [1]. She was a school teacher at Utica, N.Y.
The letter of reference [2] she received, at her departure from Utica, shows Samantha to have been a woman of outstanding character, highly regarded in her profession.
May 1845
The subscribing-Citisens of Utica, having employed Ms. Samantha M.
Huntington as a teacher of our Children for a considerable time past,
regret that she is about to leave us - and as a tribute justly due to
her for her kindness and assiduity - in the management of those
committed to her guidance & instruction, & as a testimonial of our
esteem for her, do hereby recommend her as well deserving patronage in
the very honorable profession - in which she has for a number of years
been engaged an instructor of the young.
Honnory?
James Murdock
A. Blakesley
G.A. Foster
having attended an examination of Ms. Huntingtons School. & from
personal acquaintance with her - I concur with the above recommendation
Jta?tham Williams
Samantha became the wife of Albert Arnold, a widowed farmer with a daughter (Adeline Wall Arnold), on May 21, 1845, at Burlington, N.Y. Albert Arnold, born December 26, 1807, was the son of George and Hannah (Randall) Arnold and a descendant of William Arnold, patriarch of the Providence, RI Arnold family of which Benedict Arnold was also a member. Soon after their marriage, they moved to Victoria, Knox County, IL.
Albert Arnold is believed to have been one of the local farmers who helped Catherina Whilhelmina Petronella Skoglund and Pehr Dahlgren flee the
Bishop Hill Colony to be married in 1848 [3]. Catherina's half sister was the wife of Olof Olson [4], a founder of the colony. The Dahlgrens' escape is documented by manuscripts of the colony.
Albert and Samantha both died at Victoria, he on September 18, 1881, and she on June 28, 1888. Both were intelligent, educated people from old New England families with well documented genealogies.
CHILDREN [5]
All born on the family farm at Victoria, IL
- MARSHA ELIZA, born May 4, 1846; died 1900.
- GEORGE ALBERT, born Sept. 23, 1848.
- RANDALL HUNTINGTON, born June 5, 1851.
- FANNY MALVINA was born Jan 24, 1856. She married Robert Barrer on Nov. 1, 1888 in Knox County, IL, a Rev. Runyon presiding. Her brother, George A. Arnold was a witness. Fanny died in September of 1932, and was buried in Linwood Cemetery in Galesburg, IL. Her husband had been buried there on Feb. 24, 1918. They were Quakers.
 - Robert & Fanny Barrer, ca. 1890
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 - Fanny (Arnold) Barrer, ca. 1925
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- MARY HANNAH "MOLLY", born June 7, 1858; died May 2, 1924.
 - Handle from from Mary Arnold's Silver-Plated Spoon, Showing Monogram
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