Family:Whitney, Merrill (1816-1888)

Merrill Whitney (Edmund⁶, (Isaac⁵, Isaac⁴, Nathaniel³, Benjamin², John¹), son of Edmund⁶ and Martha (Meserve) Whitney, was born 25 Feb 1816, Gorham, ME, and died 24 Jan 1888, Saco, ME.

He married, 16 Apr 1843, Lowell, MA, Zebia A. Kollock "both of Lowell",^[1] daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (-----) Kollock. She was born about 1815, Westbrook, ME, and died 1 Aug 1845, Lowell, MA, aged 30 years, of puerperal fever.^[2]

Children of Merrill and Zebia A. (Kollock) Whitney:

i.	Alonzo A. Miner Whitney, b. 18 Jul 1845, Lowell, MA,[3] d. 13 Dec 1862, Fredericksburg, VA. He enlisted from Gorham in 1862, in 16th Maine Volunteers, and was killed at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 Dec 1862.

References

• Hugh Davis McLellan, comp., and Katharine B. Lewis, ed., The History of Gorham, Maine, (Portland, ME: Smith & Sale, Printers, 1903); reprint (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1992), p. 836.

1.^  "Merrill [Whitney], and Zebia A. Hollock, both of L., [married] Apr. 16, 1843," according to Vital Records of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1930).

2.^  "Zebiah [Whitney], m., housekeeper, b. Westbrook, Me., d. Eben[eze]r and Mary Kollock, puerperal, [died] Aug. 1, 1845, a. 30y.," according to Lowell Vital Records.

3.^  "Alonzo A. Miner [Whitney], s. Merrill, manufacturer, and Zabiah, [born] July, [1845 or 1846.]," according to Lowell Vital Records.

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