Asahel Huntington

Asahel Huntington
Clerk of Courts Essex County, Massachusetts[1]
In office 1851 – September 5, 1870
8th Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts
In office March 1853 – March 1854
Preceded by	Charles Wentworth Upham
Succeeded by	Joseph Andrews
Member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853
District Attorney for the District of Essex and Middlesex Counties[1]
In office 1830–1845
Preceded by	New office
District Attorney Essex County, Massachusetts[2]
In office 1830–1845
County Attorney Essex County, Massachusetts[2]
In office 1830–1845
County Attorney Essex County, Massachusetts[2]
In office 1830–1845
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives[1][2]
In office 1827[2] – 1827[2]
Member of the Salem, Massachusetts School Board[2]
In office 1827[2] – 1827[2]
In office 1830[2] – 1832[2]
In office 1840[2] – 1842[2]
In office 1846[2] – 1847[2]
In office 1857[2] – 1858[2]
Personal details
Born	July 28, 1798[3] Topsfield, Massachusetts[3]
Died	September 5, 1870[1]
Spouse(s)	Caroline Louisa (De Blois) Tucker,[1] m. August 1842.[4]
Children	William De Blois Huntington; Sarah Louisa Huntington; Arthur Lord Huntington[4]
Alma mater	Phillips Academy,[2] class of 1815. Yale College, class of 1819.[2]
Profession	[5]

Asahel Huntington (July 28, 1798 – September 5, 1870) was an American politician who served as a Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts.^[5]

Huntington was born in Topsfield, Massachusetts on July 23, 1798. His father was the Rev. Asahel Huntington, and his mother was Alethea, daughter of Dr. Elisha Lord, of Pomfret, Connecticut. Huntington was the brother of Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Elisha Huntington.^[6]

Huntington graduated from Yale College in 1819. After leaving College, Huntington commenced his legal studies at Newburyport, and after some interruptions completed them at Salem, Mass., where he was admitted to the bar in 1824. He continued in practice in Salem until 1851, when he was appointed clerk of all the courts in Essex County; this office he held till his death. He served the State repeatedly in the Massachusetts Legislature, and in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853, and in the same year was mayor of the city of Salem. He died in Salem, Mass., after a brief illness, 5 Sept., 1870.

He was married, 15 Aug,1842, to Mrs Caroline (Deblois) Tucker, of Boston, who survived him, with a son and daughter.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.

Notes

1. 1 2 3 4 5 Essex Institute (July and October, 1878), Essex Institute Historical Collections, Volume XV, July and October, 1878. Nos 3, 4, Salem, Ma.: The Essex Institute, p. 296  Check date values in: |date= (help)
2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Arrington, Benjamin F. (1922), Municipal history of Essex County in Massachusetts Volume III, New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company., p. 149. 
3. 1 2 Essex Institute (July and October, 1878), Essex Institute Historical Collections, Volume XV, July and October, 1878. Nos 3, 4, Salem, Ma.: The Essex Institute, p. 295  Check date values in: |date= (help)
4. 1 2 Arrington, Benjamin F. (1922), Municipal history of Essex County in Massachusetts Volume III, New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company., p. 150. 
5. 1 2 Hurd, Duane Hamilton (1888), History of Essex County, Massachusetts: with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Volume I, Issue 1, Philadelphia, PA: J. W. Lewis & CO., p. 226. 
6. ↑ Reno, Conrad (1901), Memoirs of the Judiciary and The Bar of New England for the Nineteenth Century, Volume III, Boston, MA: The Century Memorial Publishing Company, p. 489.