Family:Whitney, Samuel (1794-1870)

Samuel⁷ Whitney (Asa⁶, Levi⁵, Daniel⁴, Jonathan³, Jonathan², John¹), son of Asa⁶ and Mary (Wallis) Whitney; born Feb. 27, 1794; married 30 Sep 1813, Polly Wallace; died at Nashua, New Hampshire, Sept., 1823; married second Kezia Gage.

Samuel Whitney was the inventor of what is known as the Woodworth planer. He spent considerable time and money on this machine. He had a model made by a competent machinist, which did the work admirably, and he intended to secure a patent on the same; but while he delayed in attending to that business and dreaming about the fortune he hoped to make by it, a dishonest man stealthily invaded the premises in which the model was stored, took the drawings and admeasurements of it, from which another model was made and sent to Washington, and a patent was taken out in another man's name. By this bold and villainous theft Mr. Whitney was defrauded out of the benefit of his ingenious and useful invention. He died 16 Dec 1870; resided Townsend and Waltham, Massachusetts, and Hudson, Lenawee County, Michigan.

Children of Samuel⁷ and Polly (Wallace) Whitney:

i.	Mary J.8 Whitney, born 11 Feb 1814; married in Dec., 1854, Varnum Spaulding; married second 4 Jun 1867, Joel Shattuck, born Aug., 1784; died 21 Jun 1871; resided Brookline, New Hampshire, s. p.
ii.	Samuel Whitney, born 20 Jul 1817; married Lydia Stowell.
iii.	Jonathan Wallace Whitney, born 13 May 1819; married Mary A. Brooks.
iv.	Harriett Newell Whitney, born 23 Jun 1822; married in Concord in 1846 Simon B. Whicher. She died s. p. in Nashua, New Hampshire, in June, 1858.

Children of Samuel⁷ and Kezia (Gage) Whitney:

v.	Helen M. Whitney, born in South Boston, Aug., 1832; died in Nashua, New Hampshire, in Aug., 1851.
vi.	Adelia Gage Whitney, born in Townsend, Massachusetts, 19 Feb 1837; died there in Nov., 1841.

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. 360.

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