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Subject: Re: Another Iowa family Whitney
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 04:35:54 EDT

Do you have connections in Iowa?
I have Whitneys in Iowa. The older ones were b. Michigan. The family
moved to Iowa about 1856.
(Daniel R. Whitney b.1822 Ohio(NY) and Isapheny Dow b. 1827 Ky
had seven sons(who lived to adults)-------------------------
Adebbert Whitney b.1848 Mi sp. Ella Collins child Frank Whitney
Oren Whitney 1854
Millard Whitney 1856
Jessie B. Whitney b. 1863 Ia
Cassius Henry Whitney b. 1865 in Ia
SP Hattie Record b, Del
Ernest Whitney b, 1868 Ia
Marion Whitney b. Ia
They had one daughter (my grandmother)
Rosina Whitney b. 1851 in MI
sp. John Newton Crowder b. 1851 Marshall Co, Iowa
They had7 children all b. Iowa.
This article is longer than I remembered: but tells of the family and two of
my great uncles and mentions my ggrandfather. I have deleted some parts.
<<<FRom [p.147] PROGRESSIVE MEN OF IOWA. (free database-Ancestry on the web))
Whitney, Cassius Henry,of Harlan, county attorney of Shelby county, is a
promising young lawyer. His father, Daniel R. Whitney, a farmer of
Scotch descent, was born in Ohio July 16, 1822. He was married February
25, 1847, at Rives, Mich., to Isypheny Dow, who was of Dutch descent,
and was born November 6, 1827, in Garrard county, Ky. To them ten
children were born, and eight are now living–seven sons and a daughter,
of whom Cassius H. is the youngest, save one. D. R. Whitney was an early
settler in Iowa, coming with his family to Marshalltown in 1857, where
he was engaged in freighting, or hauling goods from Iowa City, the
nearest railway station, to Marshalltown, Fort Dodge, Webster City, and
other pioneer towns. After a few years the family moved onto a farm near
Le Grand, in Marshall county.
Here C. H. Whitney was born, June 8, 1865. He was brought up on the
farm, and secured his early education at the country school, ...........>>>
<<In March, 1876, he moved with his parents to Shelby county, which was
then but sparsely settled. They lived at first in a log house on a rented
farm, but soon purchased a farm of 240 acres.........>> In November (1884) of
that year he began teaching, and in this he continued alternately with farming
until early in the spring of 1888, when he entered Western Normal college at
Shenandoah.................graduated in July, 1889. During the following year
he again taught school, and read law under the direction of his brother, Jesse
B. (WHITNEY), a graduate of the law department of the State university, who
was at that
time serving his second term as county attorney.
Cassius H. was admitted in September, 1890, to senior standing in the law
department of the
State university, from which he graduated the following June. He entered into
partnership, August 5, 1891, with his brother and former
instructor, with whom he is still associated, under the firm name of Whitney
Brothers.
.........>>>
<<Mr. Whitney is a democrat, but is liberal in his political, as in his
other, views. In March, 1896, he was elected city solicitor [p.488] of
Harlan, on a non-partisan ticket, receiving about two-thirds of all the
votes cast for the office. At the general election that year he was
elected county attorney on the fusion ticket, receiving the largest vote
of any candidate on the ticket. Mr. Whitney is a member of the American
Institute of Civics, and is a Mason, Knight of Pythias, and Modern
Woodman. He was married April 5, 1893, to Hattie E. Records, who was
born in Delaware, but has been a resident of Iowa since childhood. They
have one child, Agnes, born August 27, 1894. >>>>>>>>>
##
Cassius later went to NEBRASKA(source-Obit. ) and then to the Long Beach/
Bellflower area of Ca. He died here in 1948 and was buried in Corona, Ca.
near the homes of his daughters Agnes and Ruth. A son DOW WHITNEY was
living in Lemon Cove, Ca at that time.
Jessie B Whitney stayed in Harlan, Ia His daughter Helen Whitney married
Pete Madsen. She also lived most of her life in Harlan.
Census 1900 Harlan Shelby co. <<<Daniel b. 1823 age 76 m. 54 years. 10
children 8 living, b. in Ohio. father b. in New york. mother b. NY. Owns
his home free of Mortgage>>>
Daniel R. Whitney died in A state hospital in Clarenden, Iowa from a stroke.
Most of the family stayed in either Shelby or Harrison Co Iowa. Rosina
Whitney Crowder died in 1930 in Woodbine, Ia and was buried in Panama, Shelby
Co, Ia near her husband who died in 1888.
I keep looking & hoping to find some other descendent of Daniel R.
Whitney. Is there anyone on the list to whom this sounds familar?

Barbara Crowder Black b. IOWA 1922.- went to NM for mother's health abt
1925-6
living in Sacramento, Ca. now (My husband and I came to Ca during the Korean
Conflict and stayed)

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