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THE STERLING GENEALOGY<br />

3271 Harriet Potter Jones, b. Mar. 16, 1849 ; m. May 19, 1880,<br />

S. Brice Ingram ; have one son.<br />

3272 Jane Elizabeth Jones, b. Aug. 4, 1852; d. at Quaker<br />

Valley, Sept. 9, 1863.<br />

1591 BACKUS WILBUR HUNTINGTON (brother of the<br />

above), b. in New Brunswick, Nov. 3, 1818; m. 1st, Feb. 27,<br />

1845, Anne Eliza Riggs, b. Sept. 27, 1826, dau. of Daniel M. and<br />

Mary Eliza (Hogan) Riggs of Tuscaloosa, Ala., who d. May 27,<br />

1878; m. 2d, Aug. 18, 1879, Helen E. Seavey, b. in Portland,<br />

Me., Aug. 16, 1841, dau. of Marcian and Jane (Sturdivant)<br />

Seavey and sister of Cordelia Seavey, who m. Edward Canfield<br />

<strong>Sterling</strong> (No. 1623).<br />

Backus W. Huntington graduated from Jefferson College,<br />

Penn., in 1836; went to Camden, South Carolina, where he studied<br />

law, thence in 1839 to Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he was admitted to<br />

the Bar. In 1843 he was elected to the Alabama State Legislature<br />

and in 1849 removed to Sumter Co., Ala., where in 1852, he was<br />

elected judge of the Circuit Court. In 1853 he removed to New<br />

York City, where he practiced law until his death. He had many<br />

important cases in the U. S. Supreme Court and in the N. Y. Court<br />

of Appeals. He d. Dec. 17, 1891. Mrs. Helen Huntington was<br />

(1902) an assistant in an institution for the correction of defective<br />

speech in New York.<br />

Children by first marriage:<br />

3273 Mary Huntington, b. at Tuscaloosa, Apr. 26, 1846; d.<br />

in New York, unm., May 7, 1899.<br />

3274 t John Huntington, b. Apr. 4, 1848; m. Mary C. Horton.<br />

3275 t Madeline Huntington, b. Nov. 1, 1850; m. <strong>The</strong>odore<br />

Mertens.<br />

3276 Grace Huntington, b. near Delma, Ala., Aug. 25, 1853<br />

unm. ; lives at Larchmont, N. Y. ; connected with<br />

the Larchmont Manor School for Girls.<br />

3277 t Wilbur Huntington, b. Nov. 10, 1855 ; m. Sarah Wandell.<br />

3278 t Annie Huntington, b. Feb. 19, 1856; m. Thomas W.<br />

Allen.<br />

3279 Gertrude Huntington, b. in N. Y. Jan. 5, 1861 ; m. Nov.<br />

16, 1886, Walter Williams Concklin, b. in New York,<br />

Jan. 8, 1858, son of Samuel Marvin and Louisa<br />

(Clark) Concklin of New York, a newspaper reporter<br />

; residence, Englewood, N. J. ; no issue.

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