Family:Whitney, Orange (1849-a1920)
Orange9 Whitney (John8, Joseph Glazier7, Abner6, Samuel5, William4, Nathaniel3, John2, John1), son of John8 and Eliza (Cushing) Whitney, was born 16 Mar 1849, Ashburnham, MA.
He married, 5 Jun 1875, Laura M. Collester. She was born 17 Dec 1849,[1] and died 28 Jan 1885, Winchendon, MA, aged 35 years 1 month 11 days, buried at Gardner, MA.[2]
He was born in Ashburnham, MA, where he always resided until 1881, when he moved to Winchendon. Like his father he was engaged in the manufacture of chairs, and at one time was located in the Burgess mills, in Ashburnham. Has many town offices of trust and honor; resided Ashburnham and Winchendon, MA.
References
- 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. 612.
1.^ "Laura M. [Whitney], w. Orange, [born] Dec. 17, 1819. G.S.2," according to Franklin P. Rice, ed., Vital Records of Gardner, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (1907). NOTE: This is an error in the reading of her gravestone. She was born in 1849, not 1819, according to her death record.
2.^ "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 366, page 406.
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