Family:Whitney, Alvin (1847-a1880)

Alvin⁸ Whitney (Horace⁷, Joel⁶, Jonas⁵, David⁴, Benjamin³, John², John¹), son of Horace⁷ and Mary (Sawin) Whitney, was born 24 Nov 1847, Westminster, MA.

He married, 16 Aug 1869, Boston, MA, Marie Antoinette Rich, daughter of Samuel W. and Emeline E. (-----) Rich.^[1] She was born 20 May 1848, Brooklyn, NY.

He formerly resided in Boston and Cambridge, MA, and in 1892 moved to Chicago. He is foreman in the action department in the Kimball Piano County factory; resided 909 W. Adams St., Chicago, IL.

Children of Alvin⁸ and Marie Antoinette (Rich) Whitney:

i.	Alice Emeline9 Whitney, b. 14 or 1 Jan 1875, Boston, MA.[2].
ii.	Herbert Alvin Whitney, b. 19 Mar 1877, Boston, MA.[3]
iii.	Gertrude Sawin Whitney, b. 5 Feb 1879, Boston, MA;[4] d. 21 Jan 1883, Boston, MA, aged 3 years 11 months 16 days, of croupous diphtheria.[5]

Census

• 1870: not found.
• 1880, Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk Co., MA:

Alvin WHITNEY 32 Self M M W MA Piano Forte Maker MA MA M. Antonette WHITNEY 31 Wife F M W NY Keeping House MA MA Alice E. WHITNEY 5 Dau F S W MA School MA NY Alvin H. WHITNEY 3 Son M S W MA MA NY Gertrude S. WHITNEY 1 Dau F S W MA MA NY Josephine RICH 36 SisL F S W NY MA MA

References

• All data imported from Frederick Clifton Pierce, The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, (Chicago: 1895), p. 479.

1.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 219, page 105.

2.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 270, page 188.

3.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 288, page 112.

4.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 306, page 112.

5.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 348, page 21.

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