Family:Whitney, Aaron Augustus (1850-1922)

Dr. Aaron Augustus⁸ Whitney (Richard Harris⁷, Cyrus⁶, Isaiah⁵, Isaiah⁴, Isaiah³, Thomas², John¹), son of Richard Harris⁷ and Nancy Flagg (Whitney) Whitney, was born 7 Feb 1850, Adrian, MI.

He married, 25 Apr 1872, Clintina S. Curtis, of Wilton, NH. She was born 28 Dec 1854.

Aaron Augustus Whitney, born 7 Feb 1850, at Adrian, MI, and married Clintina S. Curtis, of Wilton, New Hampshire, in 1872; they have no children. A. A. Whitney entered the medical college of Bellevue hospital, New York, in 1868, and graduated from that institution, and has been a practicing physician since that time, meeting with a fair success, first at his old home at Adrian, MI, then at Port Huron, MI. He has stood well in the communities where he has lived, but has never made much of a success in a business way. He is an earnest Christian worker, being a member of the First Baptist church of Port Huron, and always ready to do the work when duty calls. Has been interested in fraternal societies and joined the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Knights of Honor, Knights of the Maccabees, and half a dozen other orders. Has held important official positions in these orders, and is at present grand trustee of the grand Lodge of Knights of Honor for Michigan; resided Port Huron, MI, and Saint Louis, MO, 3000 Locust St., s. p.

Census

• 1870, Wilton, Hillsborough Co., NH, p. 30:

247 272 Putnam, Andrew J. 42 M W Farmer $9000 $1000 N.H. Male citizen over 21 -----, Sarah F. 32 F W Keeping House Michigan -----, Willie 6 M W N.H. Attended school -----, Hattie 4 F W N.H. -----, Mabel 2 F W N.H. Whitney, A. Augustus 20 M W Student of Medicine Michigan Russell, Martha E. 18 F W Domestic N.H. 273 Frye, Thomas H. 33 M W Works in Tannery $500 N.H. Male citizen over 21 -----, Mary C. 33 F W Keeping House N.H. Kendall, Charles 21 M W Works in Woolen Factory N.H. Male citizen over 21 Winters, Thomas 22 M W Carpenter Nova Scotia Parents foreign born, Male citizen over 21

• 1880, Port Huron, St. Clair Co., MI:

Arin WHITNEY 30 Self M M W NH Physican NH NH C. WHITNEY 25 Wife F M W MI MA MA Martha THOMAS 22 Oth F S W CAN Servent CAN CAN

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. 545-546.

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