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Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Fw: [MAWORCES] WHITNEY Family #3 Ending
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:01:05 -0500


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Subject: [MAWORCES] WHITNEY Family #3 Ending


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> (IX) Anna Henshaw WHITNEY, daughter of Asa Hammond WHITNEY (VIII) was
> born in Cambridge, Mass. on Nov. 30, 1844. She attended school there and
> in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1855 she was sent to boarding school at Keene,
> NH with her elder sister, Laura L. WHITNEY. In 1858 they entered Lasell
> Seminary at Auburndale, Mass., graduating in 1860. During the next 2
> years she was a teacher in Lasell Seminary and in the year following she
> taught for a year in a private school in Worcester. In Feb. 1864 she
> accepted a position as teacher in the Academy at Lancaster, which
> shortly became Lancaster High School. With the exception of one year,
> 1880-1881, spent abroad, she continued to teach there until 1888.
> Miss WHITNEY has served several 3-year terms on the school committee
> of Lancaster, and is at present secretary of the Board of Trustees of
> the public library.
> Since giving up her work as teacher in the public schools, she has
> taught drawing and paintng to private pupils and in the public schools
> at times. Miss WHITNEY has an attractive home at Lancaster and pursues
> agriculture at her farm, "Few Acres", as one of her avocations. For many
> years she kept kennels of St. Bernards and Pug dogs for pleasure and
> profit, and has officiated as judge of these and various other breeds at
> the leading bench shows in the U.S. and Canada, beginning soon after her
> return from Europe and continuing to the present time.
>
> THE END of WHITNEY Family # 3
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