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A beautiful tune of his, entitled 'Canandaigua,' and adapted to the favorite words by Tom Moore--
'Come, ye disconsolate, where e'er ye languish,
Come to the mercy-sent, fervently kneel!
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish,
Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal,'
has a place in the Jubilee, and will, we doubt not, be thought worthy of reproduction in future musical collections.
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"As a business man, Mr. Whitney was never really fortunate, and at the time of his death we regret to say his affairs were far from being in a prosperous condition. He leaves a young wife, and, if we mistake not, a son and two or three daughters. His second son, a soldier of one of our regiments of regulars, was killed on the bloody field of Gettysburg, just four years ago."
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From another paper, printed in Detroit about the same date, we learn that "he held the position of postmaster at Canandaigua, under President Tyler."
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"Mr. Whitney was an Episcopalian, and was organist and a member of the vestry of St. Paul's Church for the last ten years of his first residence in Detroit."
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"Politically and socially, Mr. Whitney was a man of moderate and liberal views, and during the later political revulsions has classed himself as a conservative, not having attached himself to either party. Although naturally industrious, his generosity and warm-heartedness stood in the way of his accumulating property. He continued his active editorial labors up to about a week ago, although suffering for a long time previous from failing health. His demise, however, was sudden and unexpected, and the fact shows how far a naturally robust constitution may become exhausted and destroyed by mental labor before the impending crisis gives warning of its approach. Mr. Whitney had been for some time engaged in preparing matter designed to compose the initial number of a work to be entitled the Michigan Quarterly Register."
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"His funeral was attended at St. Paul's Church yesterday afternoon, and his remains taken thence to Canandaigua."
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II. Charlotte Whitney, b. at New Haven, Conn., 12 Oct. 1810; married at New York City, 19 Aug. 1833, Monson Lockwood, a commission-merchant, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Kellogg) Lockwood, of Norwalk, Conn., where he was born 13 Feb. 1806. They have lived at Brooklyn, N. Y.; Fond du Lac, Wis.; Stamford, Conn.; and were dwelling at New York in July 1875.
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III. Julia Ann Whitney, b. at Albany, N. Y., 22 Ap. 1813; died there, 17 Aug. 1835, and was buried in Clinton, Conn.
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