People

The links below provide thumbnail biographies of members of the Huntington family in alphabetical order whose letters are collected and transcribed in this project. The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum offers more information about all six generations of the family to live at Forty Acres, as does the finding aid for the Porter-Phelphs-Huntington Family Collection, at Amherst College Archives and Special Collections.

Moses Porter (1722-1755) married 1742 to Elizabeth Pitkin Porter (1719-1798), their child Elizabeth Porter Phelps (1747-1817) married 1770 to Charles Phelps Jr. (1743-1814) their children Charles Phelps (died in infancy), Moses Charles Porter Phelps (1772-1857) and Elizabeth Whiting Phelps Huntington (1779-1847) married 1801 to Dan Huntington (1774-1864) with 11 children, the youngest who lived in the house next being Frederic Dan Huntington (1819-1904) married 1843 to Hannah Dane Sargent (1822-1910) with 7 children, the oldest of whom lived in the house next George Putnam Huntington (1844-1904) married 1874 to Lilly st. Agnam Barrett Huntington (1848-1926) with 8 kids, the fourth of which was the last to live in the house James Lincoln Huntington (1880-1968)

Family Tree of the Porter-Phelps-Huntington family at “Forty Acres”