So Hiram's father was first cousin to the railroad pioneer Asa: http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/biography/asa2.html And Hiram and Eliza's descendants have TWO White House connections. There is Eliza's to the Bushes through John-2: http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/biography/ghwbush.html And Hiram's (and 4 WRG members) to Mrs. Fillmore through William-3's in-laws, John Perham and Lydia Shipley: http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?fillmore::perham::32.html Don't laugh. While Millard rarely cracks anyone's top-thirty list of Presidents, Abigail is as good as First Ladies get. She founded the White House library-- and wouldn't we researchers like to have free run of that! Cheers, Ron Kyser -----Original Message----- From: Jeanne Muse Date: Saturday, February 10, 2001 8:19 PM Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Descendants of 2 Whitney Lines Marry >Dear WRG: In Phoenix, Vol 1 p385, we find another instance where >descendants of the 2 major Whitney ancestors (Henry of L.I. & N.Y., and >John of Watertown) married. > >According to Phoenix, she was: Eliza Ann-7 Blackmond [Clarissa-6 >Whitney, Ebenezer-5, David-4, Joseph-3, John-2, Henry-1] > >And in my John & Elinor database, I find that he was: Hiram Doty-8 Cobb >[Joseph Whitney-7 Cobb, Sarah-6 Whitney, Asa-5, Joshua-4, William-3, >Joshua-2, John-1] > >Their children and grandchildren can be found in Phoenix Vol 2, p1004-5 >and Vol 3, p1907, respectively. > >Jeanne >