Ray Greene Huling was born on October 15, 1847, in Providence, Rhode Island.

He was an educator and author. He graduated from Brown University (B.A., 1869) and Harvard University (M.A., 1897). He became a classical assistant at the Fall River High School in 1869, a position he held until 1875 when he became principal of the Fitchburg High School. In 1886, he became principal of the New Bedford High School, remaining there until 1893 when he went to study in Cambridge. In 1899, he became a lecturer on the organization and management of schools at Harvard University. In 1900, he became an examiner at Boston University and trustee of Brown University. After resigning in 1908 due to ill health, he became a consulting teacher. Huling was a president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and a member of the American Institute of Instruction, High School Masters Club, New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, and New England History Teachers Association. He served as a president and secretary of the Boston Baptist Social Union and the Boston Baptist City Mission Society. He was a corresponding member of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania Historical Societies. He contributed articles to various periodicals on educational subjects and wrote pamphlets "The Rhode Island Emigration to Nova Scotia" (1889) and "Samuel Hubbard, of Newport. 1610-1689" (188?).

In 1879, he married Ellen Corinna Paine (1851–1896). He died on September 4, 1915, in Marshfield, Massachusetts.