Hi all, and special attention to Shaun, Sometime ago I was delegated to find out who settled the area called WHITNEY in Las Vegas. Procrastination is one of more serious faults, but in this case it was to my benefit, because a reporter for the local paper did most of the work for me. The following is a copy of the article. I went to the LDS site and found that the line traced to Zimri (John, Zachariah, John, Joseph, John, and John.) I hope that is right for it is from some hastily scribbled notes. I checked back to the WRG site and found that Zimri is in Shaun's line, and that he is listed with only one child--this would be an entirely new line. It goes from Stowell Edward, George Burton, George Sanders, Zimri, etc. Here is the article: Wednesday. January 24.2001 Looking Back at Local History How Whitney Ranch got its name BY EMMILY N.BRISTOL . VIEW STAFF WRITER In the hectic pace of everyday life, one doesn't often consider the history of a name. Complicate that with several thousand people moving to the valley a month, and it makes for a lack of community history. For instance, take all the places with "Whitney Ranch" in the name. Some might ask, "Was there ever a Whitney Ranch?" or "Who were the Whitneys?" Whitney Ranch resident, Ron Gaydosh, proposed similar questions to city officials at an informational meeting for the new Whitney Ranch golf course, currently under development. Gaydosh said he wondered if any mention of the history would be commemorated at the course's clubhouse. "There should be a plaque or something," said Gaydosh to John Renaldi, Henderson city property manager, and members of Evergreen Alliance Golf Limited, the company developing the golf course. While many people in the area have a vague idea of the family behind the name, comments made at the meeting led many people to ask questions about the origins of their housing community's name. It turns out that not only is Whitney's name etched into many places in the valley's modern urban culture, but the man who started it all, Stowell E. Whitney, ran one of Nevada's first successful dairies, had a town named after him and was one of the valley's most influential citizens in the sweeping time of a burgeoning Las Vegas and a booming Boulder City. According to records kept by the Church of the Latter Day Saints Las Vegas Family History Center, Stowell E. Whitney was born on March 28, 1884 in Bunkerville, Nev., and married Anna Isabel Frehner on May 21, 1914 in Las Vegas. The couple had six children - Lavina, Relda, Pearl, Stowell, Cleo, Lloyd and Donald Whitney. Stowell E. Whitney died in Logandale on June 27, 1961, and his wife later died in St. George, Utah on June 19, 1980. Lloyd and Donald still live in southern Nevada, in Overton and Logandale, respectively. Stowell Whitney took possession of the original ranch, owned by Clark and Ronald Forwarding and John Tack, sometime after 1914 and before 1920. The ranch had been largely undeveloped, until Whitney moved there, because Tuck was a miner. Historian Frank Write, with the Nevada State Museum and Historical Society, said there has been some ambiguity about the exact location of the original ranch site. Post office maps show Tuck ranch east of Nellis Drive, but other records show the ranch being east of Boulder Highway, near Duck Creek. Whitney was one of the founding fathers of Whitney, Nev., a Clark County town formed in August 1931 during the construction of the Boulder Dam highway, when he subdivided his ranch. That same year, the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal reported the ranch suffered damage to a dairy on the property in a severe flood that killed people traveling along Boulder Highway. The town of Whitney had a population of 250 people in 1931, and was organized by its namesake and four other key people: Jack Wright, Ray Outright, A.R. Jones and C.E. Fletcher. At the time, the town was eight miles southeast of Las Vegas, and a post office was established March 28, 1932. Whitney established a dairy at the Las Vegas ranch before buying a ranch from Dan Livingston and moving to Logandale in 1936. Lloyd Whitney, one of Stowell's surviving sons, said his father helped furnish Hinie's Select Dairy, helping to get them started. Lloyd was himself born at the ranch, along with all his siblings. "There wasn't anybody in Las Vegas we didn't know. The place was a lot smaller then," said Lloyd Whitney of his father's accomplishments. "There were no strangers in Vegas at that time." Don Whitney, Stowell's son who now resides in Logandale, said his father gave up on the ranch after the Boulder Highway bisected the property. "He couldn't get water to the other side of the farm ... he just put the keys back on the peg and moved out to Logandale," said Don Whitney. Two years later, Basic Mining Company bought the ranch property for $1 million. Don Whitney said there are still trees from the original homestead near the steam generation plant. Ethel M Chocolates Botanical Garden now sits on part of the ranch site, as well. In 1938, Hinie (last name unknown) convinced Stowell Whitney to supply milk from his ranch in Logandale to the dairy operation in Las Vegas. Don Whitney took over his father's milk producing operations in 1945, after Stowell's health began to fail. After Hinie quit in 1966, Don sold his shares of the dairy to Anderson Dairy in 1968. The town of Whitney was renamed East Las Vegas in 1958. Many of Stowell Whitney's relations still live in the Overton and Logandale areas. Hope this helps someone. It certainly is interesting! Marion Whitney Leska