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From: "Marion" <>
Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] Various Miscellany
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 11:16:22 -0700
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Continuation of Who's Who--Historical Volume Whitneys
3. Eli Whitney; inventor, born Westboro, Massachusetts 8 Dec 1765. Son of
Eli and Elizabeth (Fay) Whitney.; graduate Yale 1792; m. Henriette Frances
Edwards 6 Jan 1817; 3 children; died New Haven, Connecticut 8 Jan 1825.

4. Josiah Dwight Whitney, geologist; born Northhampton, Massachusetts, 23
Nov 1819; son of Josiah Dwight and Sarah (Williston) Whitney; graduated Yale
1839; married Louisa (Goodard) Howe June 1854; 1 daughter; died Lake
Sunapee, New Hampshire 19 Aug 1896.

5.Thomas Richard Whitney, Congressman; born New York City 2 May 1807;
Journalist; died New York City 12 April 1858; buried Greenwood Cemetery,
Brooklyn.

6. William Dwight Whitney, Sanskrit scholar; born Northhampton,
Massachusetts, 9 Feb 1827; son of Josiah Dwight and Sarah (Williston)
Whitney; married Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin 27 Aug 1856, 3 sons, 3 daughters
including Marian Parker., died New Haven, Connecticut, 7 Jun 1894.

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