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 He is one of the trustees of the Essex Savings Hank, and for many years has been warden and treasurer of Grace Episcopal church.  He was instrumental in introducing the electric light in Lawrence, and is treasurer of the Edison Electric Light Company of that city, which was the second electric light company organized on that system in the United States.
-[[Family:Whitney, Henry Melville (1839-?)|WHITNEY, Henry Melville]], son of [[Family:Whitney, James Scolly (1811-1878)|James Scolly and Laurinda (Collins) Whitney]], was born in Conway, Franklin county, October 22, 1841.
+[[Family:Whitney, Henry Melville (1839-1923)|WHITNEY, Henry Melville]], son of [[Family:Whitney, James Scolly (1811-1878)|James Scolly and Laurinda (Collins) Whitney]], was born in Conway, Franklin county, October 22, 1841.
 The public schools furnished him with his early educational training, supplemented by one year at Easthampton Seminary.

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 Among Mr. Whitney's compositions are a trio for pianoforte and strings, many solos and arrangements for both pianoforte and organ, as well as several church services, Te Deums, and miscellaneous anthems, songs, both sacred and secular.
-[[Family:Whitney, Wilbur Fisk (1839-a1880)|WHITNEY, WILBUR F.]], son of [[Family:Whitney, John (1806-1873)|John and Eliza (Cushing) Whitney]], was born in Westminster, Worcester county, December 9, 1839.
+[[Family:Whitney, Wilbur Fisk (1839-a1900)|WHITNEY, WILBUR F.]], son of [[Family:Whitney, John (1806-1873)|John and Eliza (Cushing) Whitney]], was born in Westminster, Worcester county, December 9, 1839.
 He was educated at the common and high schools of his native town, at the Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, and passed the freshman year at Dartmouth College.

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 After nearly ten years of foreign study, he opened his studio in the Pelham Studio on Boylston Street, Boston; not finding it sufficiently commodious, however, and meeting with marked success as a painter, he purchased a house on Commonwealth Avenue, in 1883, for a permanent home, and there built a large studio at the top of the house which he now occupies.
-Mr. Allen was first married in 1880, in Northampton, to Eleanor the, daughter of [[Family:Whitney, Josiah Dwight (1819-?)|Prof. J. D. and Louisa (Goddard) Whitney]] of Cambridge, who left him one child:  Eleanor Whitney Allen.  In 1884, in Boston, Mr. Allen married Alice, daughter of Hon. Ambrose A. and Maria (Fletcher) Ranney, of Boston.  Their only child is Thomas Allen, Jr.
+Mr. Allen was first married in 1880, in Northampton, to Eleanor the, daughter of [[Family:Whitney, Josiah Dwight (1819-1896)|Prof. J. D. and Louisa (Goddard) Whitney]] of Cambridge, who left him one child:  Eleanor Whitney Allen.  In 1884, in Boston, Mr. Allen married Alice, daughter of Hon. Ambrose A. and Maria (Fletcher) Ranney, of Boston.  Their only child is Thomas Allen, Jr.
 Mr. Allen is president of the Paint and Clay Club, vice-president of the Boston Art Club, patron of the Metropolitan Museum, N. Y., and a member of the permanent committee of the School of Drawing and Painting at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

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-[Frederick Augustus Currier (1851-?)] was connected with [[Family:Whitney, Andrew (1826-a1900)|Whitney Opera House]] for three years, as business manager.
+[Frederick Augustus Currier (1851-?)] was connected with [[Family:Whitney, Andrew (1826-1912)|Whitney Opera House]] for three years, as business manager.
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	John Clark Rand, ''One of a Thousand: A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A.D. 1888-'89'' (Boston, MA: First National Publishing Company, 1890).		John Clark Rand, ''One of a Thousand: A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A.D. 1888-'89'' (Boston, MA: First National Publishing Company, 1890).

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 His father and mother are living, the former aged eighty and the latter seventy-five.
-Mrs. Carr's father is still living at the advanced age of ninety-one, and is father of [[Family:Whitney, Myron William (1836-?)|Myron W. Whitney]], the celebrated basso of Boston.
+Mrs. Carr's father is still living at the advanced age of ninety-one, and is father of [[Family:Whitney, Myron William (1836-1910)|Myron W. Whitney]], the celebrated basso of Boston.
 The subject of this sketch, with his wife, brother, sister and aged parents, all living quite near each other, may be mentioned as a pleasant family circle, exceptionally beloved in each other's life.

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-[Charles Follen Adams (1842-?)] received a common school education, and leaving the grammar school in Dorchester at fifteen years of age, went as a boy into the well-known house of [[Family:Whitney, Nathaniel Davis (1816-?)|N. D. Whitney]] & Co., Boston, to learn the business.  He was afterwards salesman in the same house, then went into business for himself with John D. Clapp, under the firm name of J. D. Clapp & Co.
+[Charles Follen Adams (1842-?)] received a common school education, and leaving the grammar school in Dorchester at fifteen years of age, went as a boy into the well-known house of [[Family:Whitney, Nathaniel Davis (1816-1906)|N. D. Whitney]] & Co., Boston, to learn the business.  He was afterwards salesman in the same house, then went into business for himself with John D. Clapp, under the firm name of J. D. Clapp & Co.
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-C.), Thatcher Magoun (for the town of Medford), Harnas Sears and Professor Whitney (Newton Theological Institution), Rev. Dr. Peabody (for Exeter Academy), ...
+YOUNG, James Harvey, son of William and Hannah (Harvey) Young, was born in Salem, Essex county, June 14, 1830.
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-... WHITNEY, HENRY M., WILLIAMS, MOSES. BUCKLAND. CRITTENDEN, GEORGE D. CAMBRIDGE. ...
+Among his better works are portraits of Edward Everett (the original belonging to Mrs. E. B. Everett), William Warren, W. H. Prescott and Horace Mann (both in the Salem normal school), Colonel Ellsworth and Lieutenant Brownell (belonging to the Salem Independent Cadets), General Townsend (Soldiers' Home, Washington, D. C.), Thatcher Magoun (for the town of Medford), Harnas Sears and '''Professor Whitney''' (Newton Theological Institution), Rev. Dr. Peabody (for Exeter Academy), Rev. Dr. Hedge, Professor Mulford (Harvard), and John Ward Dean (in the New England Historic Genealogical Society), and of many private individuals.  Mrs. George Livermore, of Cambridge, owns a half-length cabinet size portrait of Everett, and a copy of the original head is in the Boston public library.
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