Family:Whitney, Jonas (1751-1842)

Dea. Jonas⁶ Whitney (Samuel⁵, Nathaniel⁴, Nathaniel³, John², John¹), born Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, 14 Jun 1751; married Jan 11, 1773, Tamar Houghton, of L., born 8 Jun 1754; died 31 Mar 1831.

He was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and with his brother was an early settler in Marlboro, Vermont. Was for many years a deacon in the Congregational church. When the first town meeting was held in 1775 he was elected to office. The Deacon kept the tavern down the hill in Marlboro, where the good fathers used to go on Sunday during the intermission between the morning and afternoon service. Clubs of four would call for a "mug of toddy" to moisten their bread and cheese. The Deacon mixed it, for who could make such excellent tody as he? The large glass, holding a quart, two-thirds full of water, was well seasoned with loaf sugar, when it was filled up with "old Jamaica rum," and well mixed by an adept use of the "toddy stick," receiving its finishing touch with a sprinkling of grated nutmeg. The four drank out of the same glass, "passing it around." If there was more than they needed they passed it to others, for they were prudent and temperate in all things. A "half mug" served for two, and it was seldom that anyone drank alone. As a rule, each one paid his share, the business of treating not being popular in the church. This harmless social habit is scouted now, though drunkenness at that time was almost unknown. If a young man got so far under the influence of strong drink as to lose the proper control of his limbs or his tongue, it brought a stigma upon him in the community, from which he rarely recovered. His wife was one of a family of eleven children, and was the frist to die, aged 77 years. The youngest of the eleven was present at her funeral -- his age was 55; he died in Strongsville, Ohio. He died 28 Apr 1842; resided Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, Marlboro, Vermont, and Strongsville, Ohio.

Children of Jonas⁶ Whitney:

i.	Sally7 Whitney, born 10 Aug 1774; married in 1790 Joseph Olds, Esq. She died Circleville, Ohio, 19 Nov 1840. He was born 26 Apr 1769, in Granville, Massachusetts; died 29 Jul 1844, at Lithopolis, Ohio. Ch: Lorenzo Houghton, born 24 Jun 1812; married 25 Mar 1835, Anna W. Robbitts; resided Springfield, Ohio; Roxey, born 4 Jun 1814; married 1837, Israel Gregg; resided Grand Rapids, Michigan; Channcey Newell, born 2 Feb 1816; married 1838, Caroline Woodruff; married 2d 9 Sep 1852, Mary Bliss Williams, born 17 Jul 1830; died Jan.1, 1889. He died 11 Feb 1890. He moved to Ohio with his parents in 1820; A. B., Oxford, Ohio, 1836; professor there, Greek and Latin, 1836-1840; A. M., Oxford, 1839; to Circleville, Ohio, 1840; Ohio House of Representatives, 1848-1849; Ohio State Senate, 1849-50; moved to Columbus, 1856; member Ohio bar, 1842; attorney-general Ohio 1865-66; LL. D., Marietta, 1867; trustee Oxford University, 1848-70, by election of legislature; trustee Lane Theological Seminary, 1871 to 1890 delegate to Pan-Presbyterian council, Edinborough, 1877; delegate to Pan-Presbyterian council, Philadelphia, 1880; member general assembly Presbyterian church, 1863, 1870, 1878; commissioner of exemption from draft, Ohio, 1864; died Columbus, Ohio, 11 Feb 1890. Ch.: William W., born Nov 22, 1836; adj.-general, Garfield's staff, 42d Ohio Vols. Inftry; killed before Vicksburg May, 1863; Mary Gore, born 23 Sep 1847; married Dr. Edmund C. Lewis; resided Canal Dover, Ohio; Frank Williams, born 19 Jun 1853; married Dec 10, 1889, Harriet E. Nash, born 12 Aug 1855; res Williamstown, Massachusetts. He was born in Circleville and moved to Columbus, 1855; grad. Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts, 1872; A. B., Williams College, 1876; to New York. City, 1876; M. D., Columbia College (Colorado. Physicians and Surgeons), 1880; house surgeon, Bellevue Hospital, New York, 1881-82; memb. New York. County Med. Soc., 1882-92; fellow, New York. Academy Medicine, 1883 ----; memb. New York. Historical Society, 1890 ----; memb. New York. Chapt. Sons of the Revolution, 1892 ----; removed to Williamstown, Massachusetts, Nov., 1892, physician; William Rose, born Aug. 11, 1791, married Barbary Pratt. He died 15 Jul 1861; Amasa Minley, born 16 Feb 1793; married 22 Nov 1814, Lephe Winchester, and died Sept. 20, 1838; Joseph, born 25 Oct 1794; married Almira A. Olds, and died Apr. 27, 1847; Edson, born 22 Mar 1797; died 22 Feb 1799; Chester, born 24 Oct 1798; married Phila Adams, and died 21 Jul 1862; Sally, born 5 Oct 1800; died Jan 18, 1809; Edson Baldwin, born 3 Jun 1802; married Ann Maria Carollus, and died 24 Jan 1869; Gamaliel, born Nov. 28, 1803; married Minerva Howe, and died 26 Jan 1894; Jonas Whitney, born 17 Jul 1805; married Mary Ann Walker, and died 30 Sep 1832; Benjamin Smith, born 5 May 1807; married Theresa Herron, and died Nov. 12, 1862; Sally Houghton, born 4 Nov 1810; died 21 Aug 1811; Lyman Newton, born 16 Jul 1819; married Minerva Adams, and died Apr. 26, 1875, at Circleville, Ohio.
ii.	Cinda Whitney, born 18 Apr 1776; married Nathan Britain.
iii.	Lucy Whitney, born 22 Jan 1778; married 23 Jun 1809, Gen. Jonathon Smith. She died 9 Apr 1836.
iv.	Tamar Whitney, born 9 Jul 1779; married John T. Strong.
v.	Jonas Whitney, born 16 Mar 1781; died 4 Apr 1781.
vi.	Julia Whitney, born 10 Sep 1782; died 27 Aug 1786.
vii.	Irene Whitney, born 19 Jul 1784; married 22 Jul 1802, Elijah Lyman Clark, son of Rev. Dr. Gershom. She died Strongsville, Ohio, 27 Sep 1820.
viii.	Roxey Whitney, born 10 May 1786; married 25 Sep 1808, Rev. Ira M. Olds. She died Jan 26, 1813.
ix.	Julia Whitney, born 21 Apr 1788; married 27 Apr 1811, Rev. Gamaliel S. Olds. She died Circleville, Ohio. Among the first who settled in Ohio were John Strong, accompanied or soon followed by Bowen, Lyman, Whitney and others, who located in Strongsville -- naming is thus in honor of Mr. Strong, the original purchaser. The Rev. Gamaliel Olds and his brother Joseph Olds, Esq., and their families removed to Circleville about fifty years ago. Among the children of Joseph was the late Hon. B. Olds, Dr. Chester Olds, and Judge Chauncey N. Olds, all well known in Ohio.
x.	Jonas Whitney, born 20 Jun 1791; married 6 Dec 1812, Lovicey Houghton, dau. of Capt. Nahum, and resided Marlboro.
xi.	Lyman Whitney, born 2 Dec 1793; died 20 May 1826. He was graduated at Middlebury college in 1817, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1821; was ordained a Congregational minister at Columbia, Connecticut, in 1821, and died a home missionary at Ashville, North Carolina.
xii.	Dewey Whitney, born 8 Oct 1796.

References

1. 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. 136-138.

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