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− | <b>Family Group Record</b>
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− | <font size=-1>Husband <b>Andrew Clow Whitney</b>
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− | Birth 11 Aug 1833 Franklin Co., Vt.
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− | Death 22 Jun 1909 Alden, Iowa
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− | Marriage 31 Dec 1858 Alden, Iowa
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− | Father Solomon Whitney (b 3 Jan 1795)
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− | Mother Besheba Clow (b 1 Sep 1795)
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− | Wife <b>Mary Gardner Todd</b>
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− | Birth 9 Nov 1836 Killawog, NY
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− | Death 25 Jan 1928 Alden, Iowa
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− | Father John Todd (b 18 May 1817)
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− | Mother Lucy B Gardner (b 17 Apr 1818)
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− | Children
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− | 1 M Andrew Melvin Whitney
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− | Birth 14 Jan 1871 Alden, Iowa
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− | Death 11 Oct 1953 Radcliffe, Iowa
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− | Spouse Augusta Vieth (m 22 Mar 1906)
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− | 2 F Effie Whitney
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− | Birth 12 Oct 1880 Alden, Iowa
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− | Death Alden, Iowa
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− | 3 F Mabel Whitney
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− | Birth 18 Oct 1876
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− | Death
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− | 4 m Charles Whitney
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− | Birth 4 Dec 1874
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− | Death Ft. Dodge
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− | 5 F Minnie S Whitney
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− | Birth 15 Mar 1868
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− | Death Alden, Iowa
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− | 6 F Leona A Whitney
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− | Birth 6 Aug 1865 Alden, Iowa
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− | Death Alden, Iowa
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− | 7 M Louis H Whitney
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− | Birth 6 Aug 1863 Alden, Iowa
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− | Death 25 Aug 1935 Libertyville, Ill.
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− | Spouse Grace McPherson
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− | 8 F Edith F Whitney
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− | Birth 18 May 1861 Alden, Iowa
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− | Death Alden, Iowa
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− | 9 F Ida May Whitney
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− | Birth 31 Mar 1860 Alden, Iowa
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− | Death 13 Feb 1925 Alden, Iowa
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− | Spouse Lyman Beecher Rogers (m 30 Jun 1886)
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− | <b>HUSBAND NOTES: Andrew Clow Whitney</b>
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− | Andrew began learning the carpenter trade at the age of 16. He
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− | became a resident of Iowa in 1855, working as a carpenter in
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− | Independence until June 1857, when he, his brother Irving, and
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− | others drove through to Alden. He and the few who had preceded him
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− | then began construction of the new town. He was soon the owner of
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− | a carpenter shop, which developed into a cabinetmakers shop and
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− | then into a furniture store. He ws in the furniture business
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− | for thirty years. Eleven years before his death the store was
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− | destroyed by fire. He was a member of the first town council, and
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− | also served on the school board and as treasurer. Funeral
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− | services were conducted by Rev. A. G. Axtel of the Congregational
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− | Church. He was interred in the Alden Cemetery.
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− | Andrew built his own home at the corner of Maine and Pearl streets, and
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− | made most of the furniture in that home.
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− | <b>WIFE NOTES: Mary Gardner Todd</b>
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− | Attended school in Killawog until aged 11 (1847), when she became
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− | a member of the Deacon Rogers family of Marathon, NY, through the
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− | second marriage of her mother. In 1856 the family moved to Alden,
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− | Iowa. Her paternal grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary
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− | War. She had two sisters, Mrs Eva Cleveland of Two Harbors, Minn,
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− | and Mrs Jennie George of Ashland, Wis. She also had a
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− | half-brother, Dr. R R Rogers of Jamestown, NY.
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− | Pallbearers were the nephews, M.A. Whitney, M.D. Whitney,
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− | I.G. Whitney, and M.L. Webster. Out of town attendees at the
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− | funeral were Mr and Mrs A.M. Whitney, Gladys, and Harvey of Garden
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− | City, Mr Montie A Whitney of Ft. Dodge, Mr and Mrs Martin D
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− | Whitney of Albert Lea, Minn, Mr and Mrs M.L. Webster
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− | of Independence, Iowa.</td>
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− | <b><u>LEFT</u>: Andrew Clow Whitney with his wife
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− | Mary Gardner Todd, and their children:
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− | <u>RIGHT</u>: Mary Gardner Todd Whitney's
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− | parents, brothers.
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− | Husband <b>John Todd</b>
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− | Birth 18 May 1817
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− | Death 6 Dec 1844
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− | Father Henry Todd (b 1799)
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− | Mother Elizabeth Mills (b 10 Dec 1798)
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− | Wife <b>Lucy B Gardner</b>
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− | Birth 17 Apr 1818
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− | Death 24 Oct 1865
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− | Children
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− | 1 F Mary Gardner Todd
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− | Birth 9 Nov 1836 Killawog, NY
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− | Death 25 Jan 1928 Alden, Iowa
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− | Spouse Andrew Clow Whitney (m 31 Dec 1858)
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− | 2 M Henry W Todd
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− | Birth 18 Jan 1841 Killawog, NY
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− | Death 23 Oct 1912 Marshalltown, Iowa
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− | Spouse Jeannette Bigelow
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− | 3 M Chauncy D Todd
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− | Birth 17 Jul 1844 Killawog, NY
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− | Death New York, NY
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− | Spouse Ellen Button
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− | <b>HUSBAND NOTES: John Todd</b>
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− | <b>WIFE NOTES: Lucy B. Gardner</b>
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− | Todd Geneology, CS71 T634 1920 p. 361:
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− | Lucy B. Gardner married Jesse Rogers of Alden, Iowa
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− | <b>CHILD NOTES: Mary Gardner Todd</b>
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− | Attended school in Killawog until aged 11 (1847), when she became
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− | a member of the Deacon Rogers family of Marathon, NY, through the
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− | second marriage of her mother. In 1856 the family moved to Alden,
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− | Iowa. Her paternal grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary
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− | War. She had two sisters, Mrs Eva Cleveland of Two Harbors, Minn,
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− | and Mrs Jennie George of Ashland, Wis. She also had a
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− | half-brother, Dr. R R Rogers of Jamestown, NY.
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− | Pallbearers were the nephews, M.A. Whitney, M.D. Whitney,
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− | I.G. Whitney, and M.L. Webster. Out of town attendees at the
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− | funeral were Mr and Mrs A.M. Whitney, Gladys, and Harvey of Garden
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− | City, Mr Montie A Whitney of Ft. Dodge, Mr and Mrs Martin D
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− | Whitney of Albert Lea, Minn, Mr and Mrs M.L. Webster
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− | of Independence, Iowa.
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− | <b>CHILD NOTES: Henry W Todd</b>
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− | Enlisted in Company F, 2nd Iowa Cavalry, on August 9, 1861. He
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− | was mustered out Sept 19, 1865, at Selma, Alabama. For 25 years
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− | after the close of the war he was employed by the Fargo Express
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− | Company at Denver. He lived in Los Angeles for ten years, and
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− | returned to Iowa in 1911. Among the relatives who attended the
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− | funeral were Mrs. A. C. Whitney, George Bigelow, Mr and Mrs L.
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− | B. Rogers, and Miss Mabel Whitney. Mr and Mrs O. S. Cleveland of
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− | Webster City were also present.
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− | <b>CHILD NOTES: Chauncy D Todd</b>
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− | His boyhood days were spent in Alden, where he was a clerk at the
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− | L H Utley store. During the Civil War he was a member of the 32nd
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− | Iowa Infantry. He married Ellen Button after the war. They moved
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− | to Colorado where he was employed by the Singer sewing machine
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− | company as head salesman for many years. He spent his last days
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− | at the home of his daughter, Mrs Fred Roe, in New York. He was
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− | buried at Orange City NJ, by the side of his wife. He was the last
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− | of the civil war veterans from Alden.
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− | Prepared 9 Aug 1996 by:
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− | James Whitney
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− | 2410 Prairie Rd
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− | Madison, WI 53711
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− | 608 721 5440</td></tr>
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