Title: Huntington, Cheshire
Content:  The name Huntington is derived from the Old English words hunting/hunta (hunting/hunter) and dūn (a hill), therefore meaning 'hunter's hill' or possibly 'hunting hill'. It is known to have existed at the time of William the Conqueror's Domesday Book of 1086 as Hunditone. The settlement consisted of eight households (two villagers, two smallholders and four slaves) on land held by St. Werburgh's Abbey. The population according to the census of the 1801 was 111, becoming 129 in 1851, 121 in 1901 and 2,614 in 1951.
Title: Huntington, Vermont
Content:  The town was originally called "New Huntington", but the name was changed to "Huntington" in October 1795. It was named for landholders Josiah, Charles and Marmaduke Hunt.
Title: Hunton, Kent
Content:  In the 1870s, Hunton was described like this: "The village stands near the river Beult, 3 miles E by S of Yalding r. station, and 4½ SW by S of Maidstone; was once a market town; and has a post office under Staplehurst. The parish comprises 2,061 acres." The village's first recorded name was Huntindone in the eleventh century. Its name comes from Old English hunta 'huntsman' and dun 'hill' - 'Hill of the Huntsman'. The parish was frequently referred to in ancient deeds as Huntington. The name change to Hunton suggests tun meaning "village". "Hunton fell within the Hundred of Twyford. Its 19th century Registration District & Poor Law Union was Maidstone."
Title: Huntingdon, Tennessee
Content:  Huntingdon was named for Memucan Hunt, the original owner of the town site.
Title: Hunt, Texas
Content:  The settlement was originally named "Japonica"; it was later changed to "Hunt" when Alva Joy purchased land in the area from Bob Hunt and established a US post office on the site. The Stonehenge II replica was built on the North Fork north of Hunt. In the summer of 2012, Stonehenge II was moved to the front yard of the Point Theater in nearby Ingram.
Title: Kings Contrivance, Columbia, Maryland
Content:  in 1702. The neighborhood is named for a historic home land grant of 259 acres to the son of Henry Ridgely Sr. in 1696. The street names of Huntington are primarily derived from the works of Carl Sandburg, although some come from the poems of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Huntington South, an outparcel surrounded by Huntington, was developed in 1986 by the Security Development Company, which requested input from the Rouse Company in naming the streets in its development. The list of names provided, including Lumberjack Row, Red Rain Way and Windbeat Way, were also taken from Sandburg poems.
Title: Huntington, Indiana
Content:  Huntington was named by Capt. Elias Murray, a member of the legislature. The name Huntington is derived from Samuel Huntington, a judge, politician, and patriot in the American Revolution. Samuel Huntington is also known for being the 3rd Governor of Connecticut and the 7th President of the Continental Congress. Being a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, Huntington took part in voting for and signing the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation.
Title: Samuel Huntington (Connecticut politician)
Content:  Huntington died while in office at his home in Norwich on January 5, 1796. His tomb, which was extensively restored in 2003, is located in the Old Norwichtown Cemetery behind his mansion house. Both Samuel and his wife Martha's remains were disinterred during the course of the project and then reinterred in a formal ceremony on November 23, 2003. Huntington, Connecticut, was named in his honor in 1789 but was later renamed to Shelton when the town incorporated with Shelton to form a city in 1919. He is the namesake of Huntington County, Indiana. Huntington Mills is a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania which also derives its name in honor of Samuel Huntington. The home that 
Title: Hunt (surname)
Content:  Hunt is an occupational surname related with hunting, originating in England and Ireland. In Estonia, the surname Hunt is also very common, it means wolf in the Estonian language. The Irish family surname is derived from Ó Fiachna and the significance is fiach means "the chase"; the clan itself was part of the Connachta's Síol Muireadaigh (kindred to the Ó Conchubhair and Mac Diarmada), located in County Roscommon and County Sligo.
Title: Jonathan Hunt (Vermont lieutenant governor)
Content:  When Hunt was instructed by the Vermont General Assembly to change the name of the town he represented from Hinsdale to Huntstown in his honor, he demurred. He asked his wife, who suggested Vernon instead, making it the only Vermont town said to be named by a woman. The Governor Hunt house, built by Hunt in 1779, and once featured in Herbert W. Congdon's "Old Vermont Houses," is now on the grounds of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. Hunt's son, also named Jonathan Hunt, served as a U.S. Congressman from Vermont.

Question: where did huntington's disease get its name?
Answer: the physician George Huntington.