Family:Whitney, George Appleton (1838-1908)
George Appleton8 Whitney (George Ransom7, Appleton Downer6, Asa5, Joshua4, William3, Joshua2, John1), born Berea, Ohio, 28 Nov 1838; married in Elyria, Ohio, 2 Dec 1869, Mary Arabella Patterson, born 10 May 1850.
He was born in Berea, Ohio. He was educated at Berea, Ohio, and was a soldier in the war for the Union. After the war closed he engaged in manufacturing business in Berea. He seems to have inherited a natural mechanical genius from some source, possibly from the same fountain head from which Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton-gin, received his. He has had several inventions patented. He is now a manufacturer at Vandalia, Illinois; resided Defiance, Ohio, and Vandalia, Illinois.
Children of George Appleton8 Whitney:
i. Grace Mildrid9 Whitney, born 2 May 1874; died 9 Aug 1881. ii. Ethel Sophia Whitney, born 26 Feb 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. 575.
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