To all my fellow Whitneys, please keep me in your thoughts this week as I make a research trip to Illinois to find out about my elusive grandfather, Harry E. Whitney, son of George W. and Harriett Osburn Whitney. This is so exciting! :) Thanks to all who helped with all the bits and pieces of inf. that finally came together. Will let you all know how this turns out! Nancy Whitney Hicks

Janet I found the obituary for a son of Elijah, Herbert Whitney will post when I have a minute. Whitney Hite

I live near Marysville in Yuba county. Elisha Whitney and several other Whitneys are buried at the Marysville City Cemetery. Here is a little info from Rootsweb re: Whitney graves transcribed there WHITNEY, Clary Feb 20 1887 20 yrs WHITNEY, Edward W. Feb 28 1884 50 yrs b:NY WHITNEY, Elisha Mar 12 1885 57 yrs b:NY WHITNEY, Frank Nov 22 1876 6y 5m 16d b:CA s/o E.W. & Kate - Some of the other graves transcribed had photos attached. I didnt see any pics for the Whitneys, so I will try to take some soon. -----Original Message----- From: Janet [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 10/24/2005 3:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: California Whitney's I am looking for information on several Whitney families that went to California in the 1850's, probably due to the gold rush. Elisha Whitney died in Yuba Co., CA. I have found him on two census records with children Chauncey in 1850 and Norman in 1880. After these census records I can find nothing on Norman and Chauncey. Just curious about this family since I just found there was a relationship with my Whitney line. Another is Asahel Whitney who is on the 1880 census for San Benito, CA. Janet Whitney Duffield

I am looking for information on several Whitney families that went to California in the 1850's, probably due to the gold rush. Elisha Whitney died in Yuba Co., CA. I have found him on two census records with children Chauncey in 1850 and Norman in 1880. After these census records I can find nothing on Norman and Chauncey. Just curious about this family since I just found there was a relationship with my Whitney line. Another is Asahel Whitney who is on the 1880 census for San Benito, CA. Janet Whitney Duffield

Hi All, This Whitney obit appeared on my Chautauqua County, New York list. Hope it helps someone out there. Phyllis Subj: [NYCHAUTA] Oliver V. Whitney(1920-2001) Date: 10/23/2005 10:10:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected] </A> To: [email protected] This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WHITNEY, LEAVITT, NELSON, SUTTER, COOPER, CORCORAN, GIBBONS, STORE, PETERSON Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/12025 Message Board Post: PJ Obit 2/12/2001 Oliver V. Whitney, 80, of 1844 Mann Road, died at 4 a.m. Monday (Feb. 12, 2001) in Corry Memorial Hospital. He was born Nov. 9, 1920, in the town of French Creek, the son of Warren W. and Hannah Leavitt Whitney. He owned and operated the Lone Ranch Holstein Dairy Farm for 60 years. He was past president and a member of the Erie and Crawford County Dairy Association, a charter member of the Chautauqua County Breeders Association and a member of the West Mina Cemetery Association, where he served as president for 30 years. He was also president and a life member of the French Creek Historical Society and a life member of the National Rifle Association. He is survived by his wife, Florence A. Nelson Whitney of Clymer, whom he married Nov. 23, 1974; two sons: Daniel and Ben J. Whitney, both of Clymer; a daughter, Renee Whitney of Glendale, Ariz.; eight grandchildren: Charles and Arron Whitney, both of Corry, Warren Whitney of Panama, Jennifer, Jonathan, Jacob and Jason Whitney, ! all of Clymer, and Joshua Sutter of Glendale; a great-granddaughter; a stepson, Lorin Cooper of Falconer; a stepdaughter, Lucille Corcoran of South Stockton; nine stepgrandchildren; and a sister, Veneva W. Gibbons of Hillard, Fla. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Shirley Store Whitney, who died July 12, 1973; a brother, Wilford Whitney on Dec. 3, 1954; a sister, Alice Peterson on April 8, 1997; and a stepson, Frederick Cooper March on March 27, 1995. Burial will be in Cutting Cemetery.

Can anyone one help me get back prior to 1800? My grandfather was George Wm. Harry Whitney 1859-1942, bricklayer Journeyman ,living in London m. to Harriet Carter. His father was George Frederick Whitney ,bricklayer and mason, of Sandhurst Berks. m. Susannah Climpson. My gggrandfather was Timothy WITNEY born 1800 at Tylers Green in parish of High Wycombe, Bucks, m. Ann ? born 1805.

I couldn't find any reference to Timothy, but I did find some Whitney's listed in Phillimore's Index of High Wycombe Parish. Phillimore only lists the bride and groom and marriage date, sometimes occupation or residence if not from the parish. I'll list the oldest and go forward. Wm. Whitne & Eliz. Harding - 12 May 1650 Thos. Romsy & Eliz. Whitne - Dec. 1650. Edw. Shrimpton & Eliz. Whitmell (Whitney in Vol. II) - 18 July 1680. John Whitny & Hannah Eels - 24 July 1681. John Whitnee & Eliz. East - 16 Oct. 1684. Wm. Whitney & Eliz. Reading - 5 Oct. 1696. John Whitny, sojourner, of Great Meadow & Mary Keen - 11 Apr. 1755. Rich. Whitney & Susannah Hazley - 8 July 1779. This parish only is recorded up to 1812. The records are not indexed, so I could of missed a few, and I didn't look into other parishes. I didn't see Tylers Green listed anywhere in my sources as a seperate parish or having seperate registers. Maybe someone else can come up with some more links. Adrian

Here is a much larger picture of Henry Martin Whitney, the subject of my last post: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/specials/commemorative/photos/historymug1_b. jpg

"Mr. Whitney is one of the fairest-minded and best-hearted cannibals I ever knew, if I do say it myself." --Mark Twain http://www.twainquotes.com/Galaxy/187012h.html Rev. Samuel-6 (John5- John4- Richard3- John2- Henry1) Whitney merits a whopping ten pages in Phoenix, but his son Henry Martin (or "Martyn" per Phoenix) barely gets two sentences: Henry Martyn Whitney http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/extracts/phoenix/p0691-0695.html#3814 Samuel Whitney http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/extracts/phoenix/p0251-0255.html#1149 Our site has little to add about this particular Henry. Fortunately other sites take up the slack. Henry served as the first Postmaster of Honolulu from 1850 to 1856, during which time he extended mail service throughout the Kingdom of Hawai'i. He returned as Postmaster General for the entire Kingdom, 1883-86. "Henry Whitney was born in Hawaii of missionary parents and went to New England for education and training. He returned in 1849 to work in the Government Printing Office. While in New England, he became profoundly deaf and never regained his hearing. The royal decree of December 20, 1850, officially appointed him Postmaster of Honolulu... In his post office room at The Polynesian Office, Whitney designed Hawaii's famous Missionary stamps. They were printed on the GPO's press in the adjoining room and issued on October 1, 1851. Also in this office in mid-1853, Whitney issued Hawaii's 5¢ and 13¢ engraved stamps, printed in Boston, portraying King Kamehameha III... Citing a conflict of interest between his private newspaper and his government position, Whitney left his job as Postmaster of Honolulu on July 1, 1856. Whitney expanded the duties of the office to include responsibility for all mail service throughout the kingdom. During Whitney's tenure, post offices and overland carrier routes were established on all the islands." http://www.hawaiianstamps.com/honopopo.html Whitney Point, N.Y., got its name from its original postmaster, Thomas Whitney. Had Hawaiians thought the same way, Honolulu might well be called Whitney Beach today. Henry also founded the Kingdom's first independent newspaper, the Honolulu Advertiser. When he had left that after many years, he accidentally started another paper, Whitney's Bulletin, which eventually became the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Honolulu is one of the smallest markets left with two daily papers. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/commemorative/history http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/ http://starbulletin.com/ I'm proud to say I-- well, I and all my third-grade classmates at Royal School-- made the front page of one of these papers, though I forget which. Our classroom was said to be in the oldest building of any kind on the island, and the paper sent a photographer around to shoot us running out of the school on the last day of the term. It was completely faked, though-- we still had two hours to go, and we had to go back into the classroom to wait it out. This was the kind of fraud Henry devoted his life to combating! Anyway, below are some more links and excerpts about Henry and his journalism. And the Advertiser commemorative linked to above is worth reading in its entirety. It also has a picture of Henry. Cheers, Ron Kyser "Both the Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin were started by Henry Whitney, the son of New England missionaries who came to the islands in the early 19th century, when Hawaii was an independent kingdom. Whitney founded the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, the precursor to the Advertiser, in 1856 and then the Daily Bulletin, the forerunner of the Star-Bulletin, in 1882. The Daily Bulletin merged with the Hawaiian Star in 1912." http://www.asianweek.com/1999_09_23/p13_feature.htm "In 1855 a most remarkable newspaper appeared -- The Folio, Hawaii's first women's newspaper. It put forth the arguments of the mid- century feminist movement, including among others women's rights to vote and take on leadership roles in the church. Although it was a single-issue newspaper, it was reprinted entirely in the popular monthly the Friend, giving it a wide readership. The articles in The Folio were anonymously written, but newspaper scholar Helen Chapin says signs point to Catherine Whitney as the editor and principal author. Whitney was married to Polynesian editor and Advertiser founder Henry Whitney." "On July 2, 1856, Henry Whitney hand-pulled from his press the first copies of what has become Hawaii's longest continually published newspaper. "Whitney was an Island-born son of missionaries sent to the mainland for education where he learned the printing trade. "He returned to Hawaii and, for awhile, ran the government-sponsored Hawaiian/English weekly, The Polynesian. "But Whitney chafed under government censorship so set off to start a newspaper 'independent of government control and patronage.' "The result was the Pacific Commercial Advertiser. 'Commercial' was an accurate title -- the first front page alone carried 52 ads along with news accounts of King Kamehameha IV's wedding. Whitney devoted a great deal of coverage to the shipping industry and benefitted from its solid advertising support. "Whitney was fluent in Hawaiian and the early Advertiser carried a section in Hawaiian, Ha Hoku Loa O Hawaii (Morning Star). "Whitney was not enamored of everything Hawaiian, however, and his editorial campaigns managed to rile just about everyone. "His missionary roots were showing when he bitterly attacked the hula as a pagan ritual that kept Hawaiians away from honest labor. "He went up against the royal government and the emerging sugar barons simultaneously by arguing against the monarchy-sponsored plans to import Asian field laborers. "Whitney sold the Advertiser after 14 years but stayed on as its editor for another 10. "The early Advertiser boasted such writers as Mark Twain, Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson. "Whitney left the paper in 1880 when it was sold to sugar baron Claus Spreckels -- a man Whitney wanted nothing to do with. "Sprekels was a close friend to King Kalakaua and used the Advertiser to promote government causes and the Royalist viewpoint -- a stand unpopular with the growing number of businessmen who wanted closer U.S. ties. "Whitney, meanwhile, went into the stationery business and opened a small store by the waterfront. Finding it hard to get the news business out of his veins, he posted a "daily bulletin" in the window of his shop, filled with news items and the comings and goings of ships. "His daily postings were so popular that when his shop was purchased a few years later, the new owner converted them into a newspaper called the Daily Bulletin -- the forerunner of today's Honolulu Star- Bulletin." http://www2.hawaii.edu/~tbrislin/jourhist.html

Bill, At 06:37 PM 10/5/05, Bill Whitney wrote: >Another attempt to connect John Whitney. > >John Whitney was born in New London, Connecticut about 1732. He married >Desire Avery, born about 1736 at New London, probably Groton, Connecticut. >They were married about 1757. She was a daughter of Nathaniel Avery and >Rachel Desire Yeoman. John and Desire were Planters who replaced the >Acadians in Nova Scotia and lived at Horton, Nova Scotia in 1760. They had a >son John. Due to his Connecticut birthplace, I suspect he may be a Henry >descendant but I am unable to make a connection. Any help and suggestions >will be appreciated. I'd really like to close this one. I suggest that this may have been John-5 WHITNEY, son of Enoch-4 and Thankful (PARKE) WHITNEY [Ebenezer-3, Richard-2, John-1], born 2 May 1737, Voluntown, CT. His surname is recorded as "WHITING" in the Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, but there is little doubt that it should be "WHITNEY", because of the births of his siblings recorded there. Perhaps with this clue, you may be able to prove the identification I have suggested above. Regards, Robert Mr. Robert L. Ward rlward AT whitneygen DOT org http://www.whitneygen.org/home.html

I am extra interested because I love jazz enough that I would be interested in reading Balliett even if he weren't a distant cousin. Miles N. Fowler ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.nexet.net

"A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste." -- Whitney Balliett Whitney Balliett served as the New Yorker's jazz critic for over 40 years, from the mid-1950s into the early 21st century, and is also the author of fifteen or so books on the subject. A short biography can be found here: http://www.icebergradio.com/artist/230253/whitney_balliett.html This is his descent from John and Elinor: Whitney Lyon BALLIETT Dorothy LYON & Fargo BALLIETT Whitney LYON Israel Whitney LYON Lemuel LYON & Ann Frances7 (Israel6-Israel5-Daniel4-Benjamin3-John2-John1) WHITNEY. His son is Whitney Jr., so the name has held on an impressive century-and-a-half from its last use in this line as a surname. Here are a couple of online interviews; the second is aural, so you can hear his voice: http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=balliett.html http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2001/02/20010206_a_main.asp Great-great grandmother Ann Frances Whitney Lyon did not live to share the exciting future her widower and children were to experience. In 1851, they sailed from New York aboard the Flying Cloud clipper around Cape Horn to the West Coast. Lemuel later served as consul in Japan. Below are some excerpts from their adventures. Cheers, Ron Kyser "Three of the passengers who came aboard to stow their belongings were Whitney Lyon and his two sisters, Ellen and Sarah, three members of a family from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts; heading west. Their father, Lemuel Lyon, had recently returned from the Sandwich [i.e., Hawaiian] Islands, where he had successfully engaged in the California-Sandwich Islands trade. His had returned to Massachusetts to gather up his large family of six children, and begin to make the move West. Lemuel Lyon's wife, Ann Frances Whitney, had died nine years before." http://www.eraoftheclipperships.com/page24web4.html "September 17, 1851: Married on Wednesday evening, the 17th inst., on board by the Rev. T.D. Hunt, Mr. Reuben P. Boise of Portland, O.T., to Miss Ellen F. Lyon, daughter of Lemuel Lyon, of Roxbury, Mass, who arrived on the Flying Cloud's maiden voyage to San Francisco on September 1, 1851. " http://www.maritimeheritage.org/inport/1851.htm#lyonmarriage http://www.maritimeheritage.org/ships/barques.html "Mrs. [Ellen] Boise was a daughter of Lemuel Lyon, a Boston merchant, who went to California in the early '50s and came to Oregon about 1854, locating at Independence, where he built the second store building and the first grain warehouse in the town, becoming a prominent and successful man. Later he went to The Dalles and engaged in mercantile business, which he relinquished on his appointment as United States consul general to Japan. His death occurred at sea while en route home for a visit." http://www.open.org/~pioneerc/pg04.html "Mrs. [Sarah] Coffin's father was Captain Lemuel Lyon, also a pioneer of this city. Both families came to Oregon in 1862. Captain Lyon was appointed consul to Japan from The Dalles, to Kanagawa where he died. Captain Coffin was his secretary, who with his young son, now A.W. Coffin of Coffin Bros. of Yakima (Washington), brought the remains back to the states." http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/OR-OLD-NEWS/2002-05/1021507744

WRG: According to an article by one Leonard F. Tibbets, a will in Plymouth, proved 1673 was entered with the Whitney surname, but was actually the will of one Thomas Whiton. Thomas Whiton came from Benenden in Kent, and to confuse matters further, came to America in the Elizabeth and Ann, Roger Cooper, master, with the date 12 May 1635 associated. All the information uses the name Whiton until the entry about the will, submitted by his (3rd) wife, Patience (Morton) Faunce [Whitney]. If this information needs further consideration, I can supply more if necessary. Allan E. Green

Dear WRG: My wife found a sale on genealogical CD's and I selected several that I thought might be useful for Whitney research. One was a reprint of a book entitled "English Origins of New England Families," Using the index function I found this data (for which I offer no guarantees -- it's as good as the author was careful). Inez Whitney, b. 23 November 1903/05 (blurred) was the daughter of Harley J. and Lena Teresa (LeClerc) Whitney, and m. at the Little Brown Church in the Vale, Nashua, Iowa, one Weston Boyd Penrose, b. 4 Nov 1907, s. o. Harry Jefferson(13) and Bessie Holly (Boyd) Penrose. One child given, Harry, b. 23 Apr 1941. As can be inferred from the number 13 after H. J.'s name, it would appear that twelve earlier generations of Penrose data is available (I haven't looked) If a current member of the WRG is interested in this Penrose ancestry, I believe I can print it from the CD and send it by snail mail. I will not retype it all. Happy Hunting! Allan E. Green

Fellow ancestor hunters: I have run upon the need to find an online source for birth records in Boston, Suffolk, MA. I appreciate more than I can say the generous work done by Ray at Ray'splace, but I am unable to see any records on that site after the very early 1800's. The time that I need coverage for begins about 1814 and runs through the 1830's. I would appreciate being steered to any site or source that will provide the opportunity to search birth records (and marriage and death if that is also possible) between 1800 and 1850. Thank you for taking the time to read my plea. Sincerely, Allan E. Green [email protected]

Yes, it was understood that you were copying your source verbatim and any misspellings were in the original. That's the general practice in genealogy. I can see how the term "typo" could be misinterpreted. it sounds so 20th-century, something done with a keyboard rather than a quill pen. Sorry for any confusion. I didn't have time to think of another word; someone was rushing me to dinner! Cheers, Ron Kyser P.S. to the Group-- That dinner was to benefit Katrina victims. Which reminds me-- have we heard from Robert C. yet? And does anyone know how the hotels, bank, and other New Orleans institutions with the Whitney name fared? -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Whitney" <[email protected]> > Sorry I only type what I read and the way the paper types it. The eroor if > there is one is not mine. Have more but will be awhile beore I send again. > >

Sorry I only type what I read and the way the paper types it. The eroor if there is one is not mine. Have more but will be awhile beore I send again.

Dear Ron: Who else by you would catch something like this. The WRG is immeasurably richer for your keen eye, mordant wit, and generous heart Allan E. Green

Wow! Ron, you amaze me with the information you share with the group. Thanks for all! from, Carolyn Whitney Branagan ----- Original Message ----- From: "R R Kyser" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 7:45 PM Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] Miscellaneous Whitney Stuff!! > On Wednesday, October 5, 2005, at 04:10 PM, Whitney wrote: > > "Watertown Republican 18 October 1861: > In Watertown, Wisc. October 10, by Rev. D.O. Jones married Mr. George L. > Whitney of Mukwonago and Miss Molicie L. Shakspeare." > > I sure hope this is a typo and not an example of mordant humor by the > Shakespeare family. "Molicie" is an obscure Spanish word which one online > dictionary translates as "effeminacy, flabbiness, fondness for luxury, > softness", and others as "mushiness" or "lassitude". Not an inspiring > choice of name! > > The word appears in a 1909 Spanish version of Collosians 3:5, which can be > compared with our King James translation of the same: > > "Amortiguad, pues, vuestros miembros que están sobre la tierra: > fornicación, inmundicia, molicie, mala concupiscencia, y avaricia, que es > idolatría:" > > "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, > uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, > which is idolatry:" > > Had George been using a Spanish Bible, he might have mortified his bride! > > However, this source suggests that "Molicie"'s name was actually Melissa-- > Greek for "honeybee", and cognate with "Deborah" in Hebrew-- especially > as the wedding date is the same: > > http://www.dodgejeffgen.com/archive/newsclipping/DJ_Seeley-Shakspeare.htm > > Cheers, > Ron Kyser > > >

On Wednesday, October 5, 2005, at 04:10 PM, Whitney wrote: "Watertown Republican 18 October 1861: In Watertown, Wisc. October 10, by Rev. D.O. Jones married Mr. George L. Whitney of Mukwonago and Miss Molicie L. Shakspeare." I sure hope this is a typo and not an example of mordant humor by the Shakespeare family. "Molicie" is an obscure Spanish word which one online dictionary translates as "effeminacy, flabbiness, fondness for luxury, softness", and others as "mushiness" or "lassitude". Not an inspiring choice of name! The word appears in a 1909 Spanish version of Collosians 3:5, which can be compared with our King James translation of the same: "Amortiguad, pues, vuestros miembros que están sobre la tierra: fornicación, inmundicia, molicie, mala concupiscencia, y avaricia, que es idolatría:" "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:" Had George been using a Spanish Bible, he might have mortified his bride! However, this source suggests that "Molicie"'s name was actually Melissa-- Greek for "honeybee", and cognate with "Deborah" in Hebrew-- especially as the wedding date is the same: http://www.dodgejeffgen.com/archive/newsclipping/DJ_Seeley-Shakspeare.htm Cheers, Ron Kyser