Family:Whitney, Baxter (1812-1889)
Baxter8 Whitney (Chester7, Aaron6, Nathan5, Nathan4, Thomas3, Thomas2, John1), born Waterbury, Vermont, 27 May 1812; married there, 8 May 1836, Mary A. Kneeland, born 27 Jun 1814; died at Topeka, Kansas, 15 Oct 1887.
He was born on a farm in Waterbury and resided with his parents, while his only brother left his home to seek his fortunes in the west. Soon after his marriage, in 1838, he left on a visit to his brother in the west, going via the Erie canal. He was absent eight months. In 1859 he went west to the extreme border of civilization at that time, twenty miles beyond Manhattan, Kansas, much nearer the Indians than was comfortable. In 1877 he moved to Topeka and died there. He died 17 Apr 1889; resided Waterbury, Vermont, and Topeka, Kansas.
Children of Baxter8 Whitney:
i. Katherine A.9 Whitney, born 31 Aug 1838; married 15 Nov 1858, Albe B. Whiting; resided Topeka, Kansas. He was born 10 Nov 1835; resided 1157 Filmore St. - Ch.: Harris L., born 12 Nov 1861; married 18 Aug 1885, Georgia L. Murdock, of Cambridgeport, Massachusetts; Mary Helen, born 12 Jul 1863; married 15 Nov 1883, H. L. King, 702 N. 5th Ave., Atchison, Kansas; Katharine L., born 22 Jul 1866; married 1 Jun 1892, Talmage S. Hand, 7 W. 19th St., New York City; Lillian B., born Feb. 14, 1868; married 3 Jan 1889, Hampton L. Shirer, 1157 Filmore St., Topeka, Kansas; Annie J., born 16 Jul 1872; died 28 Jul 1876; baby boy, born 17 Oct 1864; died 29 Oct 1864.
ii. Geo. Baxter Whitney, born 11 Apr 1837; died Dec., 1851. iii. Emeline B. Whitney, born 10 Apr 1844; married 25 Dec 1865, Montgomery Wisner; resided Bozeman, Montana. He was born 7 Oct 1839. - Ch.: Lewis Baxter, born 12 Jul 1867; Irenaeus Kneeland, born 28 Sep 1872.
iv. WM. Wallace Whitney, born 7 Jul 1840; died in the army from the hardships of war in the fall of 1864. v. Arthur B. Whitney, born 30 Aug 1846; married Emma J. Patch and Carrie M. Tyler.
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. 537.
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