Family:Whitney, Henry Austin (1826-1889)

Henry Austin⁸ Whitney (Joseph⁷, Joseph⁶, Samuel⁵, Benjamin⁴, Thomas³, Thomas², John¹), born Boston, 6 Oct 1826; married 3 Mar 1852, Fanny Lawrence, born Aug. 19, 1828; died 28 Jan 1883.

A Boston paper published the following obituary: "President H. A. Whitney. Death of a noted financier and railroad operator. Henry A. Whitney, the banker and ex-president of the Boston & Providence railroad, died 21 Feb 1889, at 6 o'clock at his residence, 261 Marlboro street. Mr. Whitney was born in this city in 1826, and after receiving a public school education entered early in life into a course of commercial training. Entering Harvard he was graduated in the class of 1846. He became a banker, and invested his capital in railroad shares. He was a large holder in the Boston & Providence railroad, and succeeded W. W. Woolsey as president of the corporation. Last summer the road was absorbed by the Old Colony system. Mr. Whitney was a very able man." He was a prominent member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and has privately printed the following works: "A Brief Account of the Descendants of John and Eleanor Whitney," 1857; "Incidents in the Life of Samuel Whitney," 1860; "An Account of the First Settlers of Hingham;" he died 21 Feb 1889; resided Boston, Massachusetts.

Children of Henry Austin⁸ Whitney:

i.	Henry Lawrence9 Whitney, born 27 Oct 1853; accidentally shot, died Oct. 23, 1866.
ii.	Joseph Cutler Whitney, born 7 Dec 1856; married Georgianna Hayward.
iii.	Ellerton Pratt Whitney, born 21 Aug 1858; resided Blue Hill, Massachusetts.
iv.	Elizabeth Whitney, born 23 Mar 1860; married 1884, Dr. James Jackson Minot; resided 188 Marlboro St., Boston. Ch.: George Richards, born Dec. 2, 1885; James, born Oct., 1891. He was born 11 Oct 1852, graduated at Harvard college, 1874, A. B.; Harvard college, 1878, M. D.; physician Carney Hosp.; physician to out-patients Massachusetts. Gen. Hosp.
v.	Constance Whitney, born May 11, 1865; married Sept. 11, 1890, Franz Edouard Zerrahu; resided Blue Hill, Massachusetts Ch.: Constance, born June 21, 1891. He was born in Boston, 1857; studied architecture at the Boston Institute of Sociology; architect by profession.
vi.	Hugh Whitney, born 7 Sep 1870; resided Blue Hill, Massachusetts.

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. 534.

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