Memoir, typescript. Huntington describes his early life in Vermont and western New York; his experiences as a teacher and school superintendent in Rockford, Illinois, during the 1840s and 1850s; and his service as an United States Army nurse in the Civil War during the siege of Vicksburg. In 1864 he moved to Olympia, Washington, to serve as a clerk for his brother-in-law, William H. Waterman, Superintendent of Indian Affairs. He was appointed Indian Agent for the Makah Indians in 1874, and he discusses his work on the Neah Bay Reservation, his removal from office, and his experiences in Washington, D. C., in 1877 while answering charges of malfeasance. In 1881 he became pastor of the Congregational Church in Eureka, California; in describing his work in Eureka, he discusses the expulsion of the Chinese from Eureka and Humboldt County.
