Family:Whitney, Franklin (1850-1912)

Franklin⁸ Whitney (Silas Stacy⁷, Hananiah⁶, Samuel⁵, William⁴, Nathaniel³, John², John¹), son of Silas Stacy⁷ and Mary Bryant (Cate) Whitney; born Center Harbor, New Hampshire, 22 Mar 1850; married in Elgin, Illinois, 13 Sep 1872, Jennie M. Stevenson; born 12 Sep 1854.

His life began in 1850, in Center Harbor, New Hampshire; moved to Pittsfield, New Hampshire, about 1852; thence to Chicago, 1856. He lived in Evanston two years, then back to chicago, going to school. After short experiences during school vacations, and afterward at Potter Palmer'S dry goods store as cash boy; Gates Match Mfg. Company's office. 91 So. Water St., making change-cashier; 15 years old then; in Simpson & Hughes' dry goods store, Lake St., book-keeper in the grain registration office of the board of Nat.Bk., and then in the employ of Burley & Tyrrell, as cashier and credit man for seventeen and a half years, until his health failed, moving to Takoma in 1889; resided Takoma, Washington, 611 South I street.

Children of Franklin⁸ and Jennie M. (Stevenson) Whitney:

i.	Franklin Stacy9 Whitney, born 25 Aug 1873.
ii.	Laura Evelyn Whitney, born 8 Nov 1875.
iii.	Walter Kenneth Whitney, born 15 Apr 1888.
iv.	Edith Agnes Whitney, born 19 Dec 1886; died 25 Apr 1887.

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. 464.

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