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Whitney Family.
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born 7 March 1804. They settled at 20 Gambier Street, Mount Vernon, Ohio; and were living there in Ap. 1873.
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III. Ann Prince Whitney, b. at Derby, Conn., 7 May 1827; bap. there, in the Episcopal Church, 27 Oct. 1828; died at Brooklyn, N. Y., 1 Ap. 1832, and was buried there.
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IV. Leonard Whitney, b. at Brooklyn, N. Y., 17 June 1829; bap. in the Episcopal Church, Derby, Conn., 1 Oct 1830; grad. at Kenyon College In 1849; married at Columbus, Ohio, 23 Oct. 1863, Mary Eliza Doherty, dau. of Col. William1 and Eliza (McLene) Doherty, of Columbus, where she was born 27 May 1833. They settled at Washington, D. C.; where he was, in 1872, cashier of the Western Union Telegraph Co., and, in 1874, local superintendent of the same company. He served as captain and assistant-quartermaster of U. S. Volunteers, in the war of 1861.
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V. Emeline Dore Whitney, b. at 89 Pineapple Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., 27 Jan. 1832; married at Mount Vernon, Ohio, 12 Dec. 1850, Thomas Thompson Eckert, born at St. Clairsville, Ohio, 23 Ap. 1822, son of Conrad and Hannah (Stokes) Eckert He was, during the Rebellion, superintendent of military telegraphs; subsequently general superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Co., residing in the Astor House, New York; and more recently, president of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Co. He has refused to give any information concerning himself and children. She died at Utica, N. Y., 7 Nov. 1869, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
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VI. Theodore Bliss Whitney, b. at Gambier, Ohio, 21 Aug. 1834; died at the same place, 21 Sept. 1834.
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VII. Ellen Stone Whitney, b. at Gambier, Ohio, 10 Nov. 1835; married at Mansfield, Ohio, 18 Ap. 1858, Thomas Francis Stewart, a civil engineer, son of Robert and Lucy (Lowen) Stewart, of Palmyra, Mo., and grandson of Thomas Harris and Anne (Gemmil) Stewart, of Alexandria, Penn., and of Francis and Sarah (Nelson) Lowen, of Lexington, Ky. He was born at Palmyra, 28 Oct. 1833. They dwelt at Omaha, Neb., for three years; at Newark, Ohio, one and a half years; at Holiday's Cove, W. Va., one year; at Cleveland, Ohio, one and a half years; at Steubenville, Ohio, three years; and then settled, in 1868, at Pittsburgh, Penn., where they
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1 Col. William Doherty, originally from South Carolina, served as colonel in the war of 1812; removed to Columbus, Ohio; married, and practiced law there till his death. His wife was daughter of Jeremiah McLene. The latter was born in 1767; settled early in Columbus, Ohio; was, for twenty-one years, Secretary of State for Ohio; a Representative in Congress, from Ohio, from 1833 to 1837; and died at Washington, D. C., 19 March 1837, while in Congress.
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