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among which are the "Breakers" at Newport, 

 the country home of George Vanderbilt at 

 Biltmore, S. C., and the mansion of W. K. 

 Vanderbilt in New York. In 1888 he became 

 president of the Institute of Architects, and 

 was honored by the receipt of decorations from 

 foreign learned societies. A beautiful memorial 

 was erected in his honor in New York in 1898 

 by the associated architectural societies. 



HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS (1824-1879), an 

 American painter of note who as a teacher of 

 painting threw all the strength of a remark- 

 able personality into his work. He was dedi- 

 cated to the advancement of American art, 

 and it is in this direction that his widest use- 

 fulness lay. He was born at Brattleboro, Vt., 

 and educated at Harvard College ; after gradua- 

 tion he settled in Boston. While in Europe for 

 study he became a pupil and friend of Millet, 

 the French painter. Although Hunt executed 

 several portraits of famous Americans, numer- 

 ous figure subjects and many fine mural decora- 

 tions (notably at the capitol at Albany, N.Y.), 

 he was at his best in his landscapes. His 

 most noted work, Gloucester Harbor, is a bril- 

 liant bit of sky and water, but his Falls of 

 Niagara is full of grandeur. Two of his figure 

 subjects, The Hurdy-Gurdy Boy and Girl with 

 the Kitten hang in the Boston Museum. In 

 all his paintings Hunt showed a remarkable 

 technique and fine feeling for cclor. 



HUNTER, GORDON (1863- ), a Canadian 

 barrister and jurist, chief justice of British 

 Columbia since 1902. He was born at Beams- 

 ville, Ont., attended Brantford Collegiate Insti- 

 tute, and was graduated from the University 

 of Toronto in 1885. After reading law in a 

 Toronto office for three years, he was called 

 to the bar. In 1891 he removed to British 

 Columbia, where he became the first official 

 law reporter to the provincial supreme court. 

 Later he became crown solicitor and in 1902 

 chief justice of the supreme court. In 1903 

 he acted as chairman of a royal commission 

 to investigate strikes and lockouts in the mines 

 of British Columbia. 



HUNTINGTON, IND., is the county seat of 

 Huntington County, in the northeastern part 

 of the state, twenty-four miles southwest of 

 Fort Wayne and 104 miles northeast of Indian- 

 apolis. It is on the Little River, one mile 

 from its entrance into the Wabash, and is on 

 the Erie, the Wabash and the Cincinnati, 

 Blufiton & Chicago railroads. Instead of a 

 local trolley the city has transit automobiles, 

 but is connected with other towns by interur- 



ban lines. In 1910 the population was 10,272; 

 in 1916 it was 10,880, by Federal estimate. 

 The area is nearly three square miles. 



Huntington has a United Brethren College, 

 a Federal building, completed in 1917 at a 

 cost of $120,000, a county courthouse which 

 cost $325,000, a city hall, a Carnegie Library, 

 in which is a splendid collection of Indian 

 relics, and a county hospital. The important 

 industries include a cedar chest factory, the 

 annual product of which is worth $350,000; a 

 clam-shell bucket factory with an annual out- 

 put valued at $500,000, and manufactures of 

 railroad cranes, pianos, shoes, rubber goods, 

 coal chutes, milk-bottle caps, etc. Coal and 

 lime deposits are found in the vicinity, and 

 there is a large trade in these and in agricul- 

 tural products. Huntington was settled in 1834, 

 incorporated as a town in 1848, and became a 

 city in 1873. C.B.W. 



HUNTINGTON, W. VA., an important ship- 

 ping point and industrial center, with a popu- 

 lation of 31,160 in 1910, which had increased 

 to 45,629 in 1916. It is the county seat of 

 Cabell County, and is situated in the western- 

 most section of the state, on the Ohio River 

 just below the point where it receives the 

 waters of the Guyandotte River. Charleston, 

 the state capital, is fifty miles east by rail, 

 and Cincinnati, Ohio, is 160 miles northwest by 

 water. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, con- 

 structed to the city in 1871, and the Baltimore 

 & Ohio, built in 1892, provide railway accom- 

 modations. Electric lines connect with adja- 

 cent cities east and west, and there is steamer 

 communication with all important river ports. 

 The city was settled and founded in 1870 and 

 named for Collis P. Huntington, capitalist 

 and railroad-builder, who selected the site. In 

 1909 the commission form of government, with 

 four commissioners, was adopted. The area is 

 a little more than twelve square miles. 



Huntington is a city of rapid growth. Within 

 its limits are several parks, Ritter Park (twenty 

 acres) being the largest. The most notable 

 buildings are a $75,000 Federal building, con- 

 structed in 1906, and a $65,000 Carnegie Li- 

 brary, erected in 1905. Besides its public 

 school system it has Marshall College (a state 

 normal school), business colleges and Douglas 

 High School for colored students. The West 

 Virginia Asylum for incurables is located here. 

 Huntington has foundries, machine shops, 

 lumber and planing mills, bottling works, meat- 

 packing establishments and manufactories of 

 paints, glass, stoves and bricks. It is an im- 



