Family:Whitney, Eli (1820-1895)
Eli8 Whitney (Eli7, Eli6, Nathaniel5, Nathaniel4, Nathaniel3, John2, John1), born in New Haven, Connecticut, 24 Nov 1820; married in Utica, New York, 17 Jun 1845, Sarah Perkins Dallibar.
Eli Whitney, Jr., son of the inventor of the cotton gin, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, where he attended the public schools and was fitted for college. Entering Princeton he was graduated in the class of 1841. The following year he took his father's business, viz., the manufacture of arms for the United States government. In 1856 he ceased this branch of his manufacturing business, but resumed it again at the breaking out of the civil war in 1861, and continued it until 1866. The Whitney Arms County, of which he is secretary and assistant treasurer, has manufactured thousands of muskets, rifles and revolvers of the most improved models. The company has also made many thousands of military arms for foreign governments, including muzzle-loading, breech-loading, magazine and repeating rifles. Mr. Whitney has been a member of both branches of the New Haven city government and a member of the board of public works. He was appointed one of the commissioners of the English exposition of 1862. He constructed from 1859 to 1861 the New Haven Water Works, and much of the work was done on his own credit, though built on contract for the New Haven Water Company, which organization he created. He has made many improvements in fire arms of all sorts and patented them, and has made improvements in machinery for making arms. He was on the Republican electoral ticket in Connecticut as presidential elector at large in the November election of 1892; resided 29 Elm St., New Haven, Connecticut.
Children of Eli8 Whitney:
i. Eli9 Whitney, born Jan. 22,1847; married Sarah S. Farnum. ii. Susan Huntington Whitney, born 1 Aug 1849; married 15 Oct 1873, Rev. Chauncey Bunce Brewster; resided 53 Remsen St., Brooklyn, New York; Rector Grace church, Brooklyn Heights. He was born Sept. 5, 1848. She died 24 May 1885. - Ch.: Eli Whitney, born 15 May 1885; died 29 May 1885. 7071a. iii. Henrietta Edwards, born -----; died -----.
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. 437.
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