Family:Whitney, Herbert Baker (1856-a1940)
Dr. Herbert Baker9 Whitney (Francis Austin8, Joseph7, Jonas6, Jonas5, David4, Benjamin3, John2, John1), born Leominster, Massachusetts, 24 Nov 1858; married Mar 1, 1893, Belle Boardman.
Dr. Whitney was born in Leominster; lived there until age of sixteen, when he entered Harvard (academic), after preparation at the Leom. high school. Graduated from Harvard in class of 1877, at the age of twenty, and immediately entered the Harvard Med. school. After a four years' course, graduated M. D., "cum laude," was interne at the Boston City hospital for a year, and then went abroad, studying medicine two years in German hospitals and traveling during vacations in Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy. After returning to America began the practice of medicine in Boston. At the end of two years considered it advisable to come to Colorado in account of threatened lung difficulty (had just been appointed an instructor in Harvard Med. school). Went to Salida, Colorado, and after a "horseback practice" of a year and a half in that town, high up in the Rockies, he came to Denver, where he has since been in regular practice. Lectured for two years in the Denver university Med. school, and have also given several short courses of "emergency" lectures at the Colorado Chautauqua and elsewhere in Colorado. Is now prof. of children's diseases in the State University of Colorado, visiting physician to Arapahoe County hospital, and to St. Luke's hospital in Denver; resided Denver, Colorado, 10 Masonic Temple.
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. 621.
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