Samuel Huntington is another of the phalanx of patriots who rose from the humble walks of life, and by the vigor of their intellect and unwearied perseverance compensated the deficiencies of early education and enrolled themselves with honor and capacity among the champions of Colonial freedom.  He began life a poor farmer’s boy who worked up and on through Yale and a lawyer’s office into prominence in his profession.  Pious Christian, and at one time a professor of religion, he was one of the early few to sign the Declaration, and upon Hancock’s retirement became President of Congress for two years, later serving as Chief Justice of Connecticut and Governor of that State.  Such, briefly, was Samuel Huntington, the friend of the man and liberty.