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Biographical Sketches of Deceased Clergy and Laypeople
Rev. Hallam Eldridge Whitney, died of congestion of the brain at Flint, Franklin County, Ohio, August 12, 1872, in the 55th year of his age. He was born April 18, 1818, in Binghamton, Broome County, New York, and was the son of Ebenezer Whitney. He married Miss Betsey P. Morse, of Binghamton. He studied for the ministry with Rev. Charles W. Brown. He was licensed to preach by the Chenango Association of New York, January 1, 1840, and was ordained September 17, 1846, at Springfield, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Twenty-five years of his life were spent in preaching the Gospel in the northern part of Pennsylvania. In the summer of 1871, he wrote us from Austinburg, Ashtabula County, Ohio, and said: "In consequence of very poor health, I have charge of no parish at present. I am doing some missionary work in this county and also in western Pennsylvania." He left a widow, who resides at Ripton, Lorain County, Ohio. A friend of his, writing from Flint, Ohio, says: "I do not know of his former life, but all that ever knew him say he was always a good and just man, ever doing good to his fellow men. I know that while he was with us here at Flint, he won the esteem of all."
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