Elisha Mills Huntington

Elisha Mills Huntington (March 29, 1806 – October 26, 1862) was Commissioner of the United States General Land Office and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Indiana. Early life Huntington was born on March 27, 1806, in Butternuts, New York. He was a son of Mary (née Corning) Huntington (1763–1852) and Nathaniel Huntington (1763–1815). Among his siblings was Nathaniel Huntington, a member of the Indiana House of Representatives from 1827 to 1828, and James Huntington, a member of New York State Senate from 1856 to 1857. His paternal grandparents were Dinah (née Rudd) Huntington and Eliphalet Huntington, a brother of Samuel Huntington, the 7th President of the Continental Congress and 18th Governor of Connecticut. Career After receiving an education at Canandaigua, New York with his uncle Elisha Mills, at the age of fourteen he entered the law office of Mark H. Sibley (later a New York State Senator and a U.S. Representative) and read law. In 1822, he went to Indiana with his elder brother Nathaniel where he studied for four years before being admitted to the state bar. He entered private practice in Cannelton, Indiana from 1827 to 1830. In 1830, he was appointed the first prosecutor for the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Indiana, serving until 1832.