Dan Whittier Balch is listed as #02496 in the Whittier Genealogy by Charles Collyer Whittier. He was the 5th child of Dorothy Dimon Marston Whittier (b. Grafton NH 8 Mar 1816, d. Minneapolis MN 28 Jul 1886) and Dan Shaw Balch (b. Lyme NH 16 Mar 1807, d. Minneapolis 24 Feb 1888). They were married 2 Nov 1834. Dan Whittier Balch was b. 28 Sep 1844. The Whittier genealogy has no further information on Dan Whittier Balch and his descendants. It does have further information on lines from his siblings. It also gives the line back from his mother to the original Whittier immigrant