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Huntington

noun

United States physician who first described Huntington's chorea. Synonym: George Huntington.

American revolutionary leader who signed the Declaration of Independence and was president of the Continental Congress (1731-1796). Synonym: Samuel Huntington.

United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900). Synonym: Collis Potter Huntington.

A city of western West Virginia on the Ohio river at the mouth of the Kanawha.

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... Witness his Excellency, Samuel Huntington, President of the Congress of the United States of America, at Philadelphia, the 20th day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1780, and in the fourth ...

— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII • Various

... passion, which I used to think he could not have felt so deeply if he had been a literary man himself. There were delightful dinners at his house, where the wit of the Stoddards shone, and Taylor beamed with joyous good-fellowship and overflowed with invention; and Huntington, long Paris correspondent of the Tribune, humorously tried to talk himself into the resolution of spending the rest of his life in his own country. There was one evening when C. P. Cranch, always of a most pensive presence and aspect, sang the most killingly ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... preachers whose sermons have already attained a place of honor in libraries at home and abroad, the name of Bishop F. D. Huntington stands among the foremost; and those who have been charmed by the brilliant rhetoric and instructed from the copious learning of his college classmate, Dr. Richard S. Storrs, must feel it a wrong ...

— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon

... Mr. Henry E. Huntington is a London issue of which I do not find another example. It contains sixteen pages, and the title-page gives neither printer's name nor place of publication. It may be the first issue, or it may be a ...

— The Isle Of Pines (1668) - and, An Essay in Bibliography by W. C. Ford • Henry Neville

... R. McMahon, of Huntington, Indiana, has reported three cases of epilepsy in children caused by congenital phimosis that were entirely relieved by an operation without any subsequent return of the difficulty. One of the cases was in a boy ten years old, with very firm preputial adhesions and a ...

— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino

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