User:Karin Whitney

This WRG Member is a Descendant of the immigrant John Whitney. My Whitney Line ThomasA Whitney, m. Mary Bray John1 Whitney, m.(1) Elinor ----- Joshua2 Whitney, m.(2) Abigail Tarbell Cornelius3 Whitney, m. Sarah Shepard Matthias4 Whitney, m. Alice Robbins Cornelius5 Whitney, m. Elizabeth May Eliphalet6 Whitney, m. Lucy Ellsworth Lyman E.7 Whitney, m. Jane S. ----- Charles L.8 Whitney, m. Mary Adams William L.9 Whitney, m. Maude Mowry Robert E.10 Whitney, m. Adeline Shockey Robert E.11 Whitney, Jr., m. Margaret Karin12 Whitney

5992. CHARLES L. WHITNEY (Lyman E., Eliphalet, Cornelius, Matthias, Cor- nelius, Joshua, John), b. Nov. 27, 1851, Mexico, N. Y.; m. Dec. 18, 1872, Mary ADAMS, b. Dec. 25, 1847; res. Wellwood, N. Y.

   8699. i.     WILLIAM L., b. Sept. 23, 1873; res. Palermo, N. Y.
   8700. ii.    GLENN, b. Apr. 11, 1877; res. Palermo, N. Y.

MY Whitney ancestors are from the John & Elinor lineage. (Robert E.Jr., Robert E. Sr., William L., Charles L., Lyman E., Eliphalet, Cornelius, Matthias, Cornelius, Joshua, John)

My grandfather Robert Earl Whitney was born (August 17, 1898) and raised in Mexico, NY. He had one sister Doris Whitney, several years younger.

His father, my great grandfather, was William L. Whitney born September 23, 1873. His wife was Maude (Mowry) Whitney. He was a farmer in Mexico, NY. He had one brother named Glenn Whitney. William died in 1961 or 1962 in Dansville, NY.

Robert Earl Whitney went to Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts on a wrestling scholarship. He married Adeline Francis Shockey b. June 1904, McCarther, Ohio.

They lived in Columbus, Ohio where my father (Robert Earl Jr.)was born, eventually settling in Dansville, NY and had a prosperous appliance and electronics business with a large factory storefront called "Whitney's." He also owned a portfolio of rental residences in Dansville, NY, until he retired to Miami, FL in 1967 where he sold real estate. He passed away in 1988 at age 89.

Robert Earl Whitney had three children, Robert Earl Jr., Barbara, and Virginia Ellen (b. August 12, 1940.) I am the first and only child of Robert Earl Whitney, Jr. (b. February 14, 1924) and his wife Margaret Anna (Wohlleben) Whitney (b.February 3, 1937.) He remarried in 1962 to Barbara Penner. They had two children, John Whitney, b.May 8, 1963 and Susan Michelle Whitney, b. September 6, 1966.

Karin Whitney married E. Nation Meyer (b. February 10, 1945, Hutchinson, Kansas)in 1989. One child, Nation Whitney Meyer, b. February 9, 1990, Greenbrae, Marin County, CA.

Any info pertaining to this branch of Whitney's would be welcome.