"An Illustrated history of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties : with a brief outline of the early history of the state of Oregon." Chicago?: Western Historical Pub. Co., 1902. Page 315. Baker County. ALFRED H. HUNTINGTON Few men, perhaps, have added more to the wealth of Baker county and vicinity than he whose name gives caption to this paragraph and few have a better right to be classed as benefactors of the section. An active man in mining ventures and in various other lines of material and commercial activity, a leader also in the local government and politics of the county with which our volume is concerned, the subject of this review is certainly deserving of due representation herein and we should hardly escape the charge of incompleteness were there failure to accord him such. Mr. Huntington is a son of C. A. and Lucretia A. (Watterman) Huntington, born in Rockford, Illinois, September 1, 1856. His mother was a daughter of the famed Judge Thomas A. Watterman, of Vermont. Of his father it is fitting that the brief mention should be made, inasmuch as he was a pioneer of note and a man of much ability and force of character. He came via the isthmus route to Olympia, Washington, in 1863, as chief clerk in the office of William Watterman, superintendent of Indian affairs. In 1873 he became Indian agent at Neah Bay and in that capacity he served until 1879, when he removed to Eureka, California, to accept the pastorate of the Congregational church of that city. He had been ordained in 1868. His services as a minister of the Gospel continued until 1887, when he retired. He still lives in Eureka, and enjoys remarkably good health for a man over ninety years old. Our subject received his educational discipline at Pacific University, where he took a two years' course. In 1875 he went to North Yakima, Washington, and engaged with his brother, J.B., in the cattle business. Fortune smiled upon their venture and by the fall of 1880 they found themselves in possession of six thousand head. The following winter however, proved an unusually severe one, and before spring their herds were reduced in numbers to six hundred and eighty. With this remnant they removed to Baker county, Oregon, locating at the site of Huntington, where they purchased the Miller ranch and stage station. They were the ones who platted the town, and from them it takes its name. In 1883 they suffered some heavy losses and were compelled to make an assignment, which closed out the remnant of a one hundred and fifty thousand dollar estate. In the spring of 1885 our subject stuck the first stakes which marked the Cornucopia mines, he being one of the original discoverers. In the fall of that year he sold his one-fourth interest, realizing only three thousand dollars therefore. The mine is now valued at about one hundred and forty thousand dollars. later he became owner of some very valuable properties in the Cable Cove district, among them being the Herculean and the Eagle group, but like most of the original discoverers of mines, he realized but little out of them. In 1895 he went to Burnt river and bought a farm where the town of Whitney now stands, and upon this he resided until 1898, when he was summoned by the franchises of the people to the office of county sheriff, so he disposed of his interests at Whitney. The excellence of his service as sheriff of the county is attested by the fact that in 1900 he was re-elected, and it is but fair to say that he has ever proved himself a conscientious and eminently efficient officer. His public service and his private life have both been such as to win him the esteem and respect of the people of his county, and his standing is indeed an enviable one. In fraternal affiliation Mr. Huntington is identified with the time-honored A.F. & A.M., also with the W. of W., the Maccabees and the A.O.U.W. On January 26, 1897, in Eureka, California, he married Miss Inze Albee, and they have two children, Alfred H., Jr., and Lucius A. In 1865 he was one of the two passengers on the stage from Burlington to Johnson, Virginia, which carried the news of Lee's surrender to Grant. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in September 2005 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.