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William Huntington (1792–1874) was a Hillsborough silversmith and engraver, trained by his father, the silversmith Roswell Huntington. He opened his own shop in the town by 1815 and also ran a blacksmith shop and sold flour and patent medicines. He served twelve years as a town commissioner. He trained Lemuel Lynch and was his partner from 1834 to 1836, and he died in Marion, Alabama.
Source: NCpedia: Huntington, William
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Coin silver salt spoon of about 1820 to 1830 by the Hillsborough silversmith William Huntington, 1792 to 1874. An uncommon form, it has an oval bowl on a very long handle with small square shoulders and bears the period monogram JAN.
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William Johnston Hogan's study of the Huntington silversmiths and their silver, chiefly Roswell Huntington, who lived from 1763 to 1836, and William Huntington, from 1792 to 1874. The Sir Walter Press of Durham published it in 1977 as a Philip Scott book, 136 illustrated pages with a bibliography and an index.
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