Family:Whitney, Albert Beach (1837-1909)

Dr. Albert B.⁸ Whitney (Elijah⁷, Elijah⁶, Thomas⁵, Thomas⁴, Eleazer³, Thomas², John¹), born Hudson, Ohio, 11 Dec 1837; married 24 Nov 1874, Cordelia C. Hurd, of Brooklyn, New York.

Albert B. Whitney, second son of Elijah Whitney, was born in Hudson, Ohio, where his father was engaged as a Christian minister, when he returned east and settled in the city of Providence. He received in this latter city his boyhood's education. At the age of 14 he came with his father and the family to Brooklyn, New York, and then to New York City, his education being continued in the grammar schools of these two cities and then in Columbia college, where he graduated in 1861. Two years later he graduated in medicine, his father having been a practicing physician in New York. He has practiced medicine from his early student days till the present time and is still continuing it. Has been connected with the Northwestern Dispensary of New York City and with the Eclectic Medical Society, and professor in one of its colleges; is fond of literature and learning of his profession, and has not held public offices or other stations, except a railroad directorship for a short time. His intention is to continue his profession as his life work; resided New York City, New York, 148 W. 77th St.

Children of Albert B.⁸ Whitney:

i.	Mary Louise9 Whitney, born 12 Oct 1875.
ii.	Albert Oscar Whitney, born 17 Apr 1879.

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), p. 537.

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