I received the following from a colleague. He hasn't been able to connect his Whitney ancestry back any further than Joseph Whitney ca.1800 or before. Any thoughts on how they might connect to one of the known Whitney lines? Karl Schwerin SnailMail: Dept. of Anthropology Univ. of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 e-mail: [email protected] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:17:02 -0500 (EST) From: thomas w kavanagh <[email protected]> To: karl h schwerin <[email protected]> Subject: My Whitneys Hi Karl: It was good to see you last week, and hope to see you again soon. I was going through some things anyway today and found the following. My mother typed it a long time long ago, but from what I don't know. The footnotes are my additions Begin: Joseph Whitney moved from Vermont to Buffalo, NY in the early days of that city. Apparently all of his children were born there. Later one daughter and three sons, including Henry S. Whitney, moved to Indiana*. Name Born Died Henry S. Whitney Aug 8, 1816 --- married (Dec.17, 1841) Mahala McCoy May 19, 1817 The followiing are their children: 1. William Bratlon Whitney Dec. 5, 1842 June 1, 1865 2. Bradford Britton Whitney Dec. 18, 1845 Dec. 3, 1863 3. Thomas James Whitney July 28, 1849 Oct. 20, 1896 4. Anna Elya Whitney Aug. 20, 1852 May 14, 1868 5. Kate Whitney Jan. 30, 1865 ---, 192x Thomas James Whitney married Mary Jane Strauss** (born Nov. 3, 1853) Feb. 9, 1873 1. Ernest Whitney Jan 28, 1874 Feb. 9, 1874 2. Travis H. Whitney June 22, 1875 Jan. 8, 1934 3. Charles A. Whitney August 24, 1879 1961 Travis H. Whitney married Rosalie Loew, July 2, 1903 1. Travis H. Whitney Jr. Jan 29, 1905 2. John Loew Whitney Nov. 15, 1906 3. William Thomas Whitney Sept. 14, 1908 Charles A. Whitney married Geneva May Bamford Aug 29, 1911 1. Mary Catherine Whitney Sept 15, 1914 2. Charles Bamford Whitney Nov. 6, 1915 [end] === *To be specific, Spencer County in southern Indiana along the Ohio River. **Mary Jane Strauss was daughter of Jacob Strauss, born Oct. 14, 1814 in Germany. tk