Family:Whitney, Clyde Perry (1893-1979)
Clyde Perry Whitney (Lafayette, Horace B; Horace B; Luther; Nathaniel; Samuel; Nathaniel; Nathaniel; John, John; Thomas), was born 27 Sept. 1893, Rocky Run Twp Hancock Co. IL, and died 19 March 1979, Superior, WI.
He married 3 Feb. 1921, Bozeman, MT, Bertha Ethel Metcalf, daughter of John Luther and Annie Laurie (Metcalf) Metcalf. She was born 1 Dec. 1902, Roscoe, MO, and died 15 Dec. 1980, Superior, WI.
Clyde was a master mason of Lima Lodge #135. He was a disabled WWI Veteran taking a shell fragment in his right arm in France. He lost most of the use of his right arm as a result. His sergeant Luke Whalen saved his life. Clyde homesteaded in the Red River Valley and in Montana. He attended the University of Bozeman MT and eventually moved back to IL to the family farm in Lima. He moved from Lima, to Bayfield WI, picking berries and apples and homesteading there. He attended the University of Minnesota for poultry and bee keeping, returning to IL and later to IL to work as Star mail route in 1934 in Kingston MN a mail and milk run. In 1938 he moved to Cloverton MN and worked at a Veteran Conservation Camp in Danbury and Hinkly MN. finally moving to Duluth, MN serving on the Great Lake Ore Ships until he retired from the Great Lakes shipping Co. where he served as a cook.
Children of Clyde Perry and Bertha Ethel (Metcalf) Whitney:
i. James Bertram Whitney, b. 20 Aug. 1921, Minneapolis, MN; d. 11 Oct. 1997, Cape Coral, FL. ii. Dora Virginia Whitney, b. 25 June 1922, Minneapolis, MN; d. 16 Dec. 2007, Duluth, MN. iii. Jessie Ann Whitney, b. 25 Jan. 1924, Anoka, MN; d. , . iv. Thomas Lafayette Whitney, b. 16 Nov. 1927, Lima, IL; d. 17 Sept. 2011, Duluth, MN. v. Whitney, b. , ; d. , . vi. Whitney, b. , ; d. , . vii. Whitney, b. , ; d. , . viii. Whitney, b. , ; d. , . ix. Whitney, b. , ; d. , . x. Whitney, b. , ; d. , .
References
Birth, Marriage, Death Certificates, Adams & Hancock Co. IL; Duluth, MN. Superior, WI. US Dept. of Defense, Military records, White Star Great Lakes Shipping Line. Personal Witness of Bruce T. Whitney
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