Biography of Col. Eugene Huntington

	This biography is from "Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated
 	compendium of biography, containing a compendium of local biography,
	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1898. Page 304.

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COL. EUGENE HUNTINGTON, a full page portrait of whom will be found on 
another page of this book, is one of Day county's pioneers, and a 
leading citizen of that part of the state. Col. Huntington was born in 
Norwich, Connecticut, April 18, 1844. His father, Horatio Huntington, 
was a native of Connecticut, having been born there in 1816. He went 
west to Iowa in 1855, and after some years removed to Annandale, 
Minnesota, where he engaged in the lumber business until his death, 
which occurred in 1891. He married our subject's mother in Norwich, 
Connecticut. Her maiden name was Julia Horton, and she was born in 1822, 
in New York. Of a family of eight children, five sons and three 
daughters, four of the sons and three of the daughters survive, our 
subject being the second in order of birth. He was educated in the 
common schools of Iowa, and in 1861, though but little more than 
seventeen years old, enlisted in Company H, Fourth Iowa Cavalry. After 
his term of service had expired he enlisted at Vicksburg. Mississippi, 
in 1863. Among the important battles in which he took part were those of 
Vicksburg, including the resulting campaign, and the siege of Atlanta, 
besides many fierce engagements and skirmishes of lesser importance. His 
service in all covered a period of about four years. In 1865 he was 
discharged at Atlanta and immediately returned to Iowa, where he 
obtained employment from the Union Pacific Railway Company. He worked 
for the road during the following two years, and then went to the 
Illinois Central. After one year there he joined the International & 
Great Northern forces. With them he remained until 1872, when he 
returned to Iowa and entered the Iowa Pacific service. Not long 
afterward he engaged in the lumber business at Osage, Iowa, continuing 
it for six years. In the spring of 1878 he went to Flandreau, Dakota, 
and established a real estate office. He made that village his home 
until 1883, when he went to Webster and resumed the business, adding 
money lending and law practice, He had studied law in Iowa, and was 
admitted to the bar in March, 1883, by Judge Kidder. Since that time he 
has been in continuous practice, and has had most flattering success at 
the bar. Colonel Huntington, in addition to his other interests, 
operates a farm of four hundred acres, all under cultivation. In 
politics he is a Republican, and during 1884-85 was a member of the 
territorial legislature. He was also adjutant-general of the state of 
South Dakota, holding that office three years, from 1889 to 1892. He has 
been president of the village board of Webster for a number of terms, 
and has held many local offices. He is a thirty-third degree, Mason and 
a member of the G. A. R.

	In 1868 Colonel Huntington and Miss Artemisia Button, a native of 
New York, were married. Colonel and Mrs. Huntington are the parents of 
four children: Marcia B. Richard T. Grace and Gertrude.