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