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The Whitney Family of Connecticut

by S. Whitney Phoenix
(New York: 1878)

Transcribed by Robert L. Ward.

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Whitney Family.
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with office at 49 West 16th Street, New York. His second wife, Mrs. Grace Hollister, of Buffalo, N.Y., died in 1877. He was Councilman of New York City in 1864-5--6, and President of the Board in the last named year.
3944 IV. Sophia Whitney, b. at Albany, N.Y., 21 Nov. 1814; married at New York City, ii July 1848, by Rev. Joseph R. Thompson, of New York, to James Connelly, a tailor, son of Patrick and Anna (Leonard) Connelly. They settled in New York, and there died (she, 11 Dec. 1857;1 he, 11 Dec. 1858, aged 44 years), and were buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery. 10491
3945 V. Emma Whitney, b. at Albany, N. Y., 30 Jan. 1817; married there, 1 Feb. 1838, by Rev. John N. Campbell, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Albany, to Hamilton Washington Robinson, a lawyer, son of James Wilson and Lucy (Jolls) Robinson, of Worcester, N.Y., formerly of Albany. He was born at Hudson, N. Y., 25 Nov. 1814; grad. at Union College in 1832; and received the honorary degree of LL. D., from the same college, in July 1874. They dwelt in New York City from Nov. 1839 till Nov. 1845; at Albany, till Jan. 1848; and then returned to New York, where he was living in May 1877, at 5 East 65th Street. She was killed 27 July 1865., by an accident caused by a runaway team of horses, at their country residence, in Worcester, N. Y., and was buried there. He was elected a judge of the New York Court of Common Pleas in June 1870, and was still in office in May 1877. 10496
3945a VI. Thomas Whitney, b. at Albany, N.Y., 29 Sept. 1819; died there, 25 Dec. 1819.



Chil. of Selleck and Hannah Standish (Churchill2) Whitney. 1187

3945b VII. William Alvord Whitney, b. at Albany, N. Y., 27 July 1828; died there, 17 Oct. 1831.
3946 VIII. Julia Alvord Whitney, b. at 67 Division Street, Albany, N. Y., 2 June 1832; went to New York City, 16 Feb. 1848; returned, in Oct. 1853, to Albany, where she was married, 20 June 1854, at the house of Rev. Duncan Kennedy, pastor of the Prot. Ref. Dutch Church, to David Woodworth, a photographer, son of David and Maria (Crannell) Woodworth, of Albany, where he was born, "on the present site of Bleeker Hall," on the east side of Broadway, near Steuben Street, 25 Dec. 1831. He died at 69 Lumber Street, Albany, 27 Ap. 1873, and was buried with masonic honors in lot 49, section 4, Albany Rural Cemetery. His place of business, for many years before his death, was at 444 Broadway, Albany. She 10503
  1 See Munsell's Annals of Albany, IX, 356.
  2 This name was erroneously printed Hannah Southwick Churchill, at No.1187, p.270. See the next note for her parentage.
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