Family:Whitney, Samuel (1746-1812)

Samuel⁶ Whitney (Samuel⁵, William⁴, Nathaniel³, John², John¹), son of Samuel⁵ and Abigail (Fletcher)Whitney; born Westminster, Massachusetts, 11 Feb 1746; married in Westminster, prob. 30 Jun 1784, Thankful Wilder. He died in Westminster where he always resided, and she moved to Oswego, New York, and resided with her son Moses. He died 1812, resided Westminster, Massachusetts.

Children of Samuel⁶ and Thankful (Wilder) Whitney:

i.	Moses7 Whitney, born 19 May 1789; married Mary Paige.
ii.	Pliney Whitney, born 13 Nov 1787; married Caroline Dean.
iii.	Smyrna Whitney, born 5 Mar 1786; married Ruth Whitney.
iv.	Salome Whitney, born 10 Jan 1792; married Samuel Hale, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, born 20 Oct 1792. He was a farmer, member of the Calvanistic Congregational church and afterward of the Rollstone Congregational church; a Republican. He died 1 Feb 1880; she died 25 Jun 1880. Ch.: John Moses, born 21 Nov 1819; resided 169 Cambridge street, Brooklyn, New York; Samuel Whitney, born 2 Apr 1822; married and died 16 Oct 1890. Ex-Gov. Samuel Whitney Hale was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. His grandfather, Moses Hale, came to Fitchburg from old Newbury, and was a farmer by occupation. Samuel Hale was also a farmer. He was a director of the Citizens' Bank of Keene and of the Wachusett Bank in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. His benefactions have been numerous and generous. While he was very reticent concerning such matters, it is well known that he had been instrumental in educating a Congregational clergyman, a missionary, a physician, and a young lady, the latter at Holyoke seminary, in addition to which he gave at one time $12,000 toward building a Congregational church in Keene. On the 12th day of September, after a most exciting and hotly contested canvass, he received the Republican nomination as candidate for governor. His election followed, and as governor he continued until 1885. Ch.: William Samuel, born Dublin, New Hampshire, 17 May 1854. Educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and for a time studied at Yale College, but did not graduate. Engaged in manufacturing furniture with his father at Keene, New Hampshire; married 10 Oct 1883, Emma Wheeler Frost, born 18 Apr 1856, 2d dau. of Hon. Rufus S. Frost, of Chelsea, Massachusetts; resided at Keene, New Hampshire; engaged in manufacturing. Ch.: Margaret, born 11 May 1887 at Keene, New Hampshire; Josephine, born 21 Oct 1889, at Keene, N. H.; Samuel Whitney, born 12 Apr 1891, at Keene, New Hampshire; Mary Louise Hale, born at Dublin, New Hampshire, 26 Aug 1855. Educated at Abbot Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Lived with her parents in Keene, New Hampshire, until her marriage, 20 Oct 1884, to Rev. William DeLoss Love, Jr. He was born at New Haven, Connecticut, 29 Nov 1851, being the second son of Rev. William DeLoss Love, D.D. He was educated at Milwaukee Academy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in the class of 1873. After teaching two years at Leicester Academy, Leicester, Massachusetts, and the Broadway Grammar School, Norwich, Connecticut, he entered Andover Theological Seminary, Andover, Massachusetts, and graduated in the class of 1878. He married, July, 1878, Ada Minerva Warren, of Leicester, Massachusetts, who died without issue 31 May 1881. He was ordained at Lancaster, Massachusetts, 18 Sep 1878, and dismissed from that pastorate in Jul 1881. After a year spent in travel, he served for a time the Second Congregational Church in Keene, New Hampshire; engaged in mercantile pursuits, and was the private secretary of Gov. Hale during his term in office. After his marriage to the daughter of Gov. Hale, he resumed the practice of his profession, and was installed as pastor of the Pearl Street Congregational Church, in Hartford, Connecticut, 6 May 1885, where he has since resided. He was the first chaplain of the Connecticut. Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of which he was one of the original members; is an interested member of the Connecticut Historical Society and its corresponding secretary, and a member of the American Antequarian Society. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Hamilton College in 1894, and the same year was appointed a member of the Board of Park Commissioners of Hartford. Ch: Mary Emelia, born 13 May 1886, died 20 May 1886; Marie Hale, born 9 Jul 1887, died 21 Jul 1889; Ethel Hay, born 26 Mar 1889; Emma Rilda, born 9 Feb 1891; William DeLoss, born 22 Nov 1892; Henry Augustus Hale, born 13 May 1825; address, 304 Pearl street, New York City; Mary Elizabeth Hale, born 2 May 1828; lived with her parents at Fitchburg; unmarried; died 30 Jun 1879.

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), pp. 146-147.

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