Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Mass. Vol. 4 page 204 Samuel WHITNEY, father of Andrew J. WHITNEY, of Charlton, Mass., settled in the little town of Nassau, near Troy, NY. He was born May 10, 1814. He had a common school education. He was doubtless descended from the New England WHITNEY's. He was a Republican after the formation of that party. He spent his last years in the town of Charlton, Mass. with his son Andrew and died there in 1890. He married (1st) to Chloe M. WHITIN and married (2nd) to Jane J. WASHBURN. He had by his first wife, 8 children, who are widely scattered. Andrew J. WHITNEY, son of Samuel WHITNEY, was born in Nassau, NY on Nov. 28, 1836. He was educated there in the common schools. He went to work in a cotton mill in Troy, where he learned the trade of weaver, and worked at his trade in various places until 1861, when he went to Chicopee, Mass. During the Civil War, he was twice refused as a soldier on account of his health. He left Chicopee and worked for a few years as a boss carder in a cotton mill there. He returned to Chicopee and worked on harness for Japanese cotton mills, became an expert packer for foreign shipments, and was employed in that capacity until 1876, when he bought his farm at Charlton. He was a successful farmer, industrious, energetic and shrewd in trading. He married, 1857, to Cornelia VAN HOUSEN, daughter of John VAN HOUSEN, of one of the oldest Dutch families of old Albany, NY. Their children were: #1 Charles E., married Maud ALBERTY and has Charles A. and Stella, resides in Worcester. #2 Edgar, died young