Family:Whitney, James Harris (1835-a1900)

James Harris⁸ Whitney (Benjamin Franklin⁷, Cyrus⁶, Isaiah⁵, Isaiah⁴, Isaiah³, Thomas², John¹), son of Benjamin Franklin⁷ and Louisa (Lawrence) Whitney, was born 16 Aug 1835, Harvard, MA,^[1] and died after 1895.

He married, 11 Apr 1860, Addie Thomas of Boston. She died 31 Dec 1864, of consumption.

James H. went to Seneca Falls, NY, when an infant in 1836, returned to Acton, MA, in 1845, and to Harvard in 1848. He spent a portion of his boyhood, 1845-49, with his father farming; in 1849 in Worcester, 1850-1853 in a store in Shirley, MA; 1853-54 at Normal Institute, Lancaster, charge of upholster department at Stewart's and afterwards at Arnold, Constable & Company's in New York City. During these 30 years he had occasion to cross the ocean to and from Europe many times (nearly 90) to buy goods, traveling over a large part of Europe in search of the finest goods known to the trade. Since 1891 he has returned to Harvard and for a time at least, is quietly cultivating his paternal acres, as a gentleman farmer; resided Harvard, MA.

Children of James Harris⁸ and Addie (Thomas) Whitney:

i.

George Clarence9 Whitney, b. 5 Nov 1861; d. 3 Oct 1888. He lived most of his life and was educated in New York City, spent two years in Columbia College, went into the oil broker's business, had a seat in Exchange, traveled in Europe for his health, but returned not much improved, went as far west as Minneapolis, but failing rapidly returned to New York City, to die of consumption, which he probably inherited of his mother.

ii.

Minnie Whitney, b. 1863; d. 1864, of consumption.

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), p. 544.

1.^  "James Harris [Whitney], s. of Benjamin F. and Louisa, [born] Aug. 16, 1835," according to Thomas W. Baldwin, ed., Vital Records of Harvard, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1917).

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