Elisha Huntington

Elisha Huntington (April 9, 1796 – December 13, 1865) was an American medical doctor and politician who served as the mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts and as the 19th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 1853 to 1854.

Early life Huntington was born in Topsfield, Massachusetts on July 23, 1798 to Rev. Asahel and Alethea (Lord) Huntington. Huntington was the brother of Salem, Massachusetts mayor Asahel Huntington.

He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1815 and from Yale Medical School in 1823. Commencing his professional life at Lowell in 1824, two years before the incorporation of the city, he was identified for the last quarter of a century with its growth and improvement, and was elected mayor eight times. In 1853 he was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. He was also at one time president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and from 1860 to 1865 an overseer of Harvard College. He was married in 1825 to Hannah Hinckley, of Marblehead, who died in 1859. They had five children, including William Reed Huntington.