Family:Whitney, William Glenny (1811-1889)
Capt. William Glenny8 Whitney (Ruluff7, Christopher6, William5, William4, William3, Joshua2, John1), born Dryden, New York, 11 Apr 1811; married 20 Oct 1836, Melvina Fleming, born 14 Jun 1814; died 29 Apr 1847; married 2d, 20 Mar 1850, Elcey F. M. Van Voorhees, born 5 May 1823. She is a direct descendant of Steven Coerte Van Voor Hess who came from Holland in 1660 and settled at Flatlands, Long Island. She died Feb. 8, 1889.
He was a man of medium height, compactly built, but with no spare flesh; dark brown bright eyes and black hair. He worked for and with his father from the time he was large enough to cook and wait on the men digging coal, gradually becoming the responsible head of the family. He became part owner and commander of a steamboat plying between Port. and Cinti., and it is not known whether he took his title "Capt." from this or the militia company of which he was at one time captain. He retained the grocery up to 1859, also carrying on a commission business. Coming into possession of a canal boat through going security, he decided to run it in connection with his commission (grain) business, and finding there was money in it built a line of boats and gave his whole attention to buying the grain of the Scioto valley and shipping it, until the building of the railroad. Corrupt legislation against keeping up the canal, and ill health ruined his fortunes. He was no politician and never sought office, but filled a few unremunerative city offices to oblige his fellow citizens. In party he was a Whig until after the war, when he voted Republican. In religion he was an Episcopalian. All his life was given to the service of his family, and a long invalidism was borne with patience and gentleness. His purity of life always was a most remarkable part of his character. A filthy jest, slang, or profanity or rough manners were his abhorrence. His creed was "to live and let live;" not meaning by that self-indulgence, but a belief in making use of the good things of this life, but at the same time giving everybody else a chance, even if one must forego some advantage to do it. He never resided anywhere but Ports., O., after going there with his father in 1821. He died 5 Feb 1889; resided Portsmouth, Ohio, 429 Waller St.
Children of William Glenny8 Whitney:
v. Isabella Olive9 Whitney, born 4 Jul 1851; resided at home unm. vi. Mary Jane Whitney, born 23 Jul 1853; married 30 Aug 1876, Charles Edwin Jewell, born 14 Apr 1851; died 14 Jun 1889. - Ch.: Elsie H., born Sept. 4, 1877; Charles G., born 28 Jun 1880; Susie M., born 18 Dec 1883; died 12 Jun 1884; Tom Whitney, born 14 Jun 1889. Whitney genealogy of Elsie Howard, Charles Gordon and Tom Whitney Jewell through their father, Charles Edwin Jewell, as shown by "Jewell Register" and book of William L. Whitney, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Richard Whitney, son of John and Elenor Whitney, of Watertown, Massachusetts, born England, 1626; had Moses, by wife Martha Coldam, born Watertown, 1 Aug 1655. Moses married Stow, Massachusetts, Sarah Knight; had among other children Abraham, born 29 May 1692. Abraham had daughter Mary who married Silas Jewell Jr., 22 Nov 1748; had among other children Silas C., born 9 Sep 1751; died Marlboro, Massachusetts; married Abagail Garfield; had Lewis, born 11 Apr 1781; married 1st Lucy Goodwin, 1810; had Silas T., born 23 May 1812; Silas T. resided Harmar, Ohio; had by his 2d wife Harriet Howard, Charles Edwin, who married Mary Jane Whitney, Ports., O.
i. Ruluff Whitney, born 26 Aug 1837; married Ellen M. Cassiday and Mary Louis Adams. ii. Susannah Whitney, born 5 Sep 1840; married 31 Jul 1887, John S. Womble, born N. Carolina, 4 May 1841; resided s. p., Oviede, Orange County, Florida. iii. William Fleming Whitney, born 2 Nov 1843; married Lizzie M. Jones. iv. James Whitney, born 23 Apr 1847; died 25 Apr 1847. vii. Elsie G. Whitney, born 6 Jun 1858. viii. Martha W. Whitney, born 18 Jan 1860; died 18 Jul 1862. ix. Teresa Whitney, born 3 May 1863; married 25 Nov 1886, at Des Moines, Iowa, Allan C. Mcarthur, born 4 Mar 1854; resided Circleville, Ohio - Ch.: Dorothy, born 18 Nov 1887.
References
1. 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. 563-564.
Copyright © 2006, the Whitney Research Group
