Family:Whitney, James Harris (1835-a1900)
James Harris8 Whitney (Benjamin Franklin7, Cyrus6, Isaiah5, Isaiah4, Isaiah3, Thomas2, John1), born in Harvard, Massachusetts, 16 Aug 1835; married 11 Apr 1860, Addie Thomas of Boston; died of consumption 31 Dec 1864. James H., went to Seneca Falls, New York, when an infant in 1836, returned to Action, Massachusetts, in 1845, and to Harvard in 1848. He spent a portion of his boyhood, 1845-49, with his father farming; in 1949 in Worcester, 1850-1853 in a store in Shirley, Massachusetts; 1853-54 at Normal Institute, Lancaster, charge of upholster department at Stewart's and afterwards at Arnold, Constable & County's in New York City. During these 30 years he had occasion to cross the ocean to and from Europe many times (nearly 90) to buy goods, traveling over a large part of Europe in search of the finest goods known to the trade. Since 1891 he has returned to Harvard and for a time at least, is quietly cultivating his paternal acres, as a gentleman farmer; resided Harvard, Massachusetts.
Children of James Harris8 Whitney:
i. George Clarence9 Whitney, born 5 Nov 1861; died 3 Oct 1888. He lived most of his life and was educated in New York City, spent two years in Colombia College, went into the oil broker's business, had a seat in Exchange, traveled in Europe for his health, but returned not much improved, went as far west as Minneapolis, but failing rapidly returned to New York City, to die of consumption, which he probably inherited of his mother. ii. Minnie Whitney, born 1863; died 1864 of consumption.
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. 544.
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