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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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Seventh Generation.
3870 II. Mary Whitney, twin, b. in Washington, D.C.; died there in early infancy, and was buried in the Methodist Cemetery in Georgetown, D. C.
3871 III. Harvey Stone Whitney, b. in Washington, D. C.; died there when five months old, and was buried in the Methodist Cemetery in Georgetown, D. C.
3872 IV. Pamelia Whitney, b. in Washington, D. C.; died there at the age of one year and ten months, and was buried in the Methodist Cemetery in Georgetown, D. C.
3873 V. Mary Pamelia Whitney, b. in Pennsylvania Avenue, between 11th and 12th Streets, Washington, D. C., 25 Feb. 1832; was educated at Columbian Academy, Washington; married at Canonsburg, Penn., 3 Sept. 1855, by Rev. A. B. Brown, D. D., Presbyterian, to Samuel Van Meter, a farmer, born in Hardy Co., Virginia, 10 Ap. 1834, son of Abraham and Elizabeth Ann (Van Meter) Van Meter.1 They dwelt in Canonsburg for five years; and in 1874, lived at Loxa, Ill., having resided in that county for nineteen years. They have no children.



Chil. of William and Permelia (Cogswell) Whitney. 1166

3874 I. Sarah Malvina Whitney, b. at the old homestead of her mother's family, in Clinton township, N. J., 28 Dec. 1819; resided with her father, in Newark, N. J., unmarried, in 1873.
3875 II. William Cogswell Whitney, b. at Georgetown, D. C., 25 Jan. 1825; married Anna Lavina Mockridge, dau. of Elihu and Lavina (Norton) Mockridge, of Newark, N. J. In 1873, he lived at 711 Broad Street, Newark, and was principal of Bryant, Stratton, and Whitney's Commercial College. He is said to have studied at Yale College. 10388
3876 III. Charles Henry Whitney, b. at Washington, D. C., 29 Aug. 1828; died there, 16 July 1829, and was buried in Georgetown, D. C.
3877 IV. George Henry Whitney, b. at Georgetown, D. C., 30 July 1830; grad. at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1858, and received the degree of A. M., in course; spent one year as principal of the Academy at Macedon Centre, N. Y.; two years in Oneida, N. Y., ending in March 1861, as principal of Oneida Seminary; joined the Newark Conference of 10390
  1 Abraham Van Meter was, for more than thirty years, an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Lexington, Ky., and was remarkable for his pure life and happy death. He and his wife were cousins.
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