William Reed Huntington
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William Reed Huntington (1838-1909) was an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman and author, born in Lowell, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1859 and in 1859-60 was an instructor in chemistry there. Entering the Episcopal ministry, he was rector of All-Saints Church, Worcester, Mass., in 1862-83 and of Grace Church, New York from 1883 until his death. Dr. Huntington always took a prominent part in public affairs. He was active in the movement for liturgical revisions and was long chairman of the Prayer-Book Revisions Committee, and editor with Dr. Samuel Hart of the Standard Prayer-Book of 1892. He wrote:
- The Church Idea, an Essay toward Unity (1870)
- Conditional Immortality (1878)
- The Book Annexed: Its Critics and its Prospects (1886)
- Short History of the Book of Common Prayer (1893)
- A National Church (1898)
- Sonnets and a Dream (1904)
- A Good Shepherd and other Poems (1906)
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