Family:Whitney, George Alpheus (1843-a1880)

George Alpheus⁷ Whitney (John⁶, John⁵, Abraham⁴, Joseph³, John², Henry¹), son of John⁶ and Ruth (Hutchinson) Whitney, was born 16 Aug 1843, Defiance, OH, and died after Apr 1877.

He married, 4 Jul 1869, Albany, OR, Edith Elizabeth Lloyd, daughter of Robert and Adessa (Richardson) Lloyd. She was born 16 Aug 1853, Mansfield, OH, and died after Apr 1877.

Phoenix says the following:

". . . a physician; grad. at Detroit Commercial School in 1863, at Salem Medical College, Oregon, 4 March 1872, and at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, 21 Feb. 1876; enlisted, 5 Oct. 1864, in Co. K, 182nd Reg., Ohio Vol. Inf., and was mustered out 15 July 1865; went, in 1869, to California, and thence to Oregon; . . . . They dwelt at Toledo, Oregon; afterward at Portland, Oregon, till June 1876; and then settled at Albany, Oregon, and were living there in Ap. 1877."

Children of George Alpheus⁷ and Edith Elizabeth (Lloyd) Whitney:

i.	Ella Eveline Whitney, b. 30 March 1872, Albany, OR.
ii.	Clara Adessa Whitney, b. 17 May 1875, Portland, OR.

References

• All data imported from Stephen Whitney Phoenix, The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations; being an attempt to trace the descendants, as well in the female as the male lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878; to which is prefixed some account of the Whitneys of England. (New York : Priv. Print. [Bradford Press] 1878), p. 433 and p. 1077.

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