(IX) Anna Henshaw WHITNEY, daughter of Asa Hammond WHITNEY (VIII) was born in Cambridge, Mass. on Nov. 30, 1844. She attended school there and in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1855 she was sent to boarding school at Keene, NH with her elder sister, Laura L. WHITNEY. In 1858 they entered Lasell Seminary at Auburndale, Mass., graduating in 1860. During the next 2 years she was a teacher in Lasell Seminary and in the year following she taught for a year in a private school in Worcester. In Feb. 1864 she accepted a position as teacher in the Academy at Lancaster, which shortly became Lancaster High School. With the exception of one year, 1880-1881, spent abroad, she continued to teach there until 1888. Miss WHITNEY has served several 3-year terms on the school committee of Lancaster, and is at present secretary of the Board of Trustees of the public library. Since giving up her work as teacher in the public schools, she has taught drawing and paintng to private pupils and in the public schools at times. Miss WHITNEY has an attractive home at Lancaster and pursues agriculture at her farm, "Few Acres", as one of her avocations. For many years she kept kennels of St. Bernards and Pug dogs for pleasure and profit, and has officiated as judge of these and various other breeds at the leading bench shows in the U.S. and Canada, beginning soon after her return from Europe and continuing to the present time. THE END of WHITNEY Family # 3