Family:Whitney, Sumner Allen (1824-1861)

Sumner Allen⁸ Whitney (John⁷, John⁶, Nathan⁵, David⁴, Benjamin³, John², John¹), son of John⁷ and Lydia (Allen) Whitney; born 27 Jun 1824, Westminster, MA,^[1] and died 29 Aug 1861, Worcester, MA.

He married firstly, 5 Jan 1848, Worcester, MA, Sarah L. Chapin.^[2]

He married secondly, 25 Aug 1851, Worcester, MA, Lura Clark. She was born 30 Jul 1826, Hubbardston, MA.

He was brought up on a farm and received an excellent common school education, taught school for awhile, then was teacher of penmanship and mathamatics in a college in Norfolk, VA, for two years. Returning to Worcester, MA, he began the manufacture of valentines, and engaged in the wholesale stationery and notion business, which he followed till the end of life. He was not in politics, and his only interest aside from his business was in the Baptist church, of which he was an officer. He resided Portsmouth, VA, and Worcester, MA.

Children of Sumner Allen⁸ and Lura (Clark) Whitney:

i.	Sumner C.9 Whitney, b. 7 Mar 1853; m. Mary O. Hoyt.
ii.	Freddie Allen Whitney, b. 10 Jul 1859; d. 20 Apr 1860.
iii.	Fannie Lura Whitney, b. 11 May 1857; m. Oct 1881, Charles W. Randall; resided 121 Post St., San Francisco, CA.

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. 475.

1.^  "Summer Allan [Whitney], s. John and Lydia, [born] June 27, 1824," according to Franklin P. Rice, ed., Vital Records of Westminster, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (1915).

1.^  "Sumner-A. [Whitney], and Sarah-L. Chapin, [married] Jan. 5, 1848," according to Franklin P. Rice, ed., Worcester Births, Marriages and Deaths. (Births 1714-1848; Marriages 1747-1848; Deaths, 1826-1848), Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, vol. 12 (1894).

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