Family:Whitney, Solomon (1790-1843)

Solomon⁶ Whitney (Tarball⁵, Solomon⁴, David³, Joshua², John¹), son of Tarball⁵ and Lois (Lawrence)(Hopkins) Whitney; born Apr 29 1790, Poultney, Vermont; married 4 Jul 1813, Sarah A. Haskins, born Dec 15, 1798; died July 24 1834. He was a farmer. He died Nov 26, 1843; resided Almond, New York, and Van Buren, Indiana.

Children of Solomon⁶ and Sarah A. (Haskins) Whitney:

i.	Ami7 Whitney, born 28 Jul 1815; married Elizabeth Ferguson and Caroline Borders.
ii.	Temperance Whitney, born 4 Jan 1818; died 6 Aug 1822, from burns caused by her clothing taking fire.
iii.	Asenath Whitney, born 2 Jun 1820; married 1 Aug 1839, Stephen Ketchum; resided Primrose, Wisconsin. She died 28 Mar 1886. Stephen Ketchum was born 29 Oct 1813; died 24 Aug 1856, from the effect of being kicked in the bowels by a horse, only living about twenty minutes after being injured. This occured at Van Buren, Indiana. Stephen and Asenath had nine ch.: Edwin S., born 28 Sep 1840; Albert, born 25 Jul 1842; died 17 Jul 1846; George, born 16 Oct 1844 died at Madison, Wisconsin, with the measles shortly after enlisting in a Wisconsin volunteer regt. during the Rebellion; Ann Eliza, born 27 Dec 1846; Hubert, born 7 May 1848; Loren L. and Lawrence L., twins, were born 23 Dec 1850; Loren resided Madison, Wisconsin; Ami Whitney, born 13 Aug 1854; died 10 Dec 1878; was murdered at Plumb Creek, Nebraska. One exciting incident occurred in December 1878. The residents of Kearny, Nebraska were enraged over the lynching of Luther Mitchell and Ami Ketchum by I. P. (Print) Olive for the murder of Olive's brother, Robert. Such swift justice was not uncommon. However, the possible complicity of the sheriff in the lynching and the fact that the victims' bodies were burned incensed the townspeople. Silvis made the most of the excitement by selling "Views of the Hanging of Mitchell and Ketchum" and a photographic mosaic of the "Olive Gang." - J. B. Silvis, the Union Pacific's Nomadic Photographer by Barry A. Swackhamer.
iv.	Sarah Ann Whitney, born 9 Jul 1823; married 12 Nov 1844, Rev. Caleb H. Blanchard; resided Wolcottville, Indiana. He is a Baptist clergyman, and for fifty years has preached to one congregation-quite an honorary record for a country pastor. He was born 11 Dec 1817, in Rutland County, Vermont. Is s.p. They celebrated their golden wedding 12 Nov 1894.
v.	Solomon Whitney, born 22 Mar 1827; married Sarah Struble and Mrs. Selena Lomax.
vi.	Rufus Whitney, born 28 Sep 1829; married Lodema Bartle.

Census

• 1820, Alfred, Allegany Co., NY: Salmon Whitney, 1 male over 26-45, 1 male under 10, 1 female 16-25, 2 females under 10, 1 person in agriculture.

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. 225.

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