Mailing List:2005-06-13 08, Addison O. Whitney, by Kenneth Whitney

Mailing List Archives > 2005-06-13 08, Addison O. Whitney, by Kenneth Whitney

From: "Ken and Carol Whitney" <klw1 -at- starpower.net> Subject: Addison O. Whitney Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:47:02 -0400 WRG: This morning's e-mail earned me a phone call from my friend Larry Tracy of Kennebunkport, Maine. Some of you know that Larry has a steel-trap mind. He urged me to look for a John Whitney born about 1809, living near a Samuel Whitney in the 1850 Maine census. He sure was correct. In Belmont, Waldo Co. Maine in 1850 we find John F. Whitney, 40 years old, with no wife mentioned. Living with him is James B. Whitney, 38; Emily J., 13; John W., 12; Adison O., 10; and Mary L., 8. In the same town is Samuel Whitney, 62; Margaret, 57; Edmind, 19; and an unreadable male, 17. I believe this is probably Samuel Whitney, son of Moses and Molly (Page) Whitney. Samuel was born in Gorham in 1785. So, the John S. Whitney who appears on the file card for Addison's Civil War pension is probably really John F. Whitney. Still to be determined is who is John F. Whitney. He is about 3 to four years too young to be the son of John and Hannah (Rich) Whitney. However, ages in census records can sometimes be misleading. Also, if the Thorndike records as published are incorrect, then it was John Whitney, Jr. not Sr., who died in Thorndike in 1837. He could not then be the John in the 1850 Census. Finally, the pension was applied for from Rhode Island, so who was the John S. (or F.) Whitney then living in Rhode Island who was the father of Addison O. Whitney? It looks like a reading of the pension file is definitely in order. Ken Whitney Silver Spring, MD

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