William Edwards Huntington

For other people of the same name, see William Huntington (disambiguation).

William Edwards Huntington (July 30, 1844 – December 6, 1930)^[1]^[2] was an American university dean and president.

Biography

He was born at Hillsboro, Illinois, served as private and first lieutenant in the Wisconsin Infantry in 1864–1865, and was educated at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (A.B., 1870) and at Boston University (B.D., 1873; Ph.D., 1881), where he was dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1884 to 1904, president of the university in 1904–1911, and dean of the graduate department after 1911.^[3] In early life he was a Methodist minister, having been ordained in 1868, and he held pastorates in Massachusetts at Nahant (1870–1871), Roslindale (1872–1874), Newton (1875–1876), Cambridge (1877–1879), and Boston (1880–1882).

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "^{article name needed}". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

Presidents of Boston University

William Fairfield Warren (1873–1903) William Edwards Huntington* (1903–1904) William Edwards Huntington (1904–1911) Lemuel Herbert Murlin (1911–1924) William F. Anderson* (1925–1926) Daniel L. Marsh (1926–1951) Harold C. Case (1951–1967) Arland F. Christ-Janer (1967–1970) Calvin B. T. Lee* (1970–1971) John Silber (1971–1996) Jon Westling (1996–2002) John Silber (2002–2003) Aram Chobanian (2003–2005) Aram Chobanian (2005–2005) Robert A. Brown (2005–Present)

Acting *Ad Interim

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