Family:Whitney, William Wallace (1833-a1880)

Rev. William Wallace⁹ Whitney (Noah⁸, David⁷, Silas⁶, David⁵, Benjamin⁴, Thomas³, Thomas², John¹), son of Noah⁸ and Mercy (French) Whitney; born Westminster, Vermont, 28 Mar 1833; married 13 Feb 1855, at Franklin, Vermont, Harriett Rebecca Whitney, dau. of Nathan and Abigail (Whitney) Whitney, born 6 May 1834.

He was born in the west parish of Westminster, Vermont. At the age of four years his Parents moved to Hinsdale, New Hampshire. He attended district school in the winters and worked on the farm summers until he was eighteen years of age, when his father then gave him permission to leave home and care for himself. He then went to Boston, Massachusetts, and worked a year for $20 a month and board, after which he went to the high school in Saxton River two terms, then worked in a chair shop in the town of Phillipston, Massachusetts, for a while; made good wages for those times; went to Amherst college, Massachusetts; returning to Gardner and worked in the chair shop again. He married and continued to work at his trade until 1863, when he was licensed to Preach the gospel in the M. E. church, New England conference. His first appointment was Locks Village, Franklin County, Massachusetts. He preached there two years, then removed to the Troy conference and was stationed at East Dorset, Vermont; later at Bloomingdale, Essex County, New York, Shushan, New York, Granville, New York, Troy City, Petersburg, West Lebanon, New York, Sand Lake, Stoney Creek, Glenville, Cornith, New York; there, on account of his health, he resigned and withdrew from the conference work; went south, spending a year in traveling; went back to Troy City, New York, and soon received a call from the Reformed (Dutch) Church of America to become pastor of a church in Ephratah, which he did, and was received into the Classis of Montgomery, Particular Synod of Albany, serving that church for a little over four years. He then received and accepted a call from the Livingston Reformed church at Linlithgo, Columbia County, New York, where he now resides. He has been there four years. Received his degree in 1869 from the Syracuse university of doctor of divinity. Has been preaching for thirty years; resided Linlithgo, New York.

Children of William Wallace⁹ and Harriett Rebecca (Whitney) Whitney:

i.	Ida R.10 Whitney, b. 10 Nov 1856, South Gardner, Massachusetts, d. 5 Jun 1878, E. Dorset, Vermont.
ii.	Hattie L. Whitney, b. 10 Jul 1859, East Clarendon, Vermont, unmarried
iii.	Abbie M. Whitney, b. 13 Oct 1861, Hinsdale, New Hampshire, d. 23 Aug 1880, Sand Lake, New York.

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. 643-644.

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