Family:Whitney, Charles (1809-1899)

Charles⁷ Whitney (Israel⁶, Israel⁵, Elijah⁴, Isaiah³, Thomas², John¹), son of Israel⁶ and Phoebe (Jennison) Whitney, was born 10 Mar 1809, Boston, MA, and died 1 Apr 1899, Boston, MA, aged 90 years 5 months, of arteriosclerosis, "surveyor".^[1]

He "of Norwich, Ct." married, 23 Jan 1840, Worcester, MA, Elizabeth P. Day.^[2] She was born 24 Nov 1816, and died 5 Sep 1891, s. p.

When eleven years of age he worked in a shoe store, but soon left for Malden, MA, where he remained for seven years. Wishing to acquire a more complete education he attended an academy at Stow for three years. At his graduation he engaged in teaching, and later in surveying. He followed civil engineering and surveying until 1891. He had purchased a fruit farm in New Jersey, upon which he resided for twenty years. This he disposed of and has since resided in Roxbury.

Charles⁷ and Elizabeth P. (Day) Whitney had no children.

Census

• 1850, Roxbury, Norfolk Co., MA:

1061 1467 Jacob Allen 73 M - Mass. Sybil " 70 F - " Bridget Hovey 25 F - Domestic Ireland Charles Whitney 41 M - Surveyor Mass. Elizabeth P. " 32 F - " William Rethford 26 M - Clerk England Sarah " 20 F - Maine

• 1860, Worcester Ward 6, Worcester Co., MA:

1396 2077 Wm. H. Jacobs 39 M - Pattern Maker $5000 $800 Conn. Martha P. " 39 F - " Martha E. " 10 F - Mass. Attended school 2078 Chas. Whitney 50 M - Civil Engineer " Elizabeth " 42 F - " 2079 Sarah A. Batcheller 40 F - $600 $200 " Hiram W. " 19 M - Shoemaker R.I. Mary L. " 14 F - Mass. Attended school Wm. H. " 10 M - " Attended school

• 1865 State, Roxbury Ward 4, Norfolk Co., MA:

8 11 Charles Whitney 56 M - Mass. M Surveyor - - 1 1 - Elizabeth P. Whitney 46 F - Mass. M - - - - -

• 1870, Mullica, Atlantic Co., NJ:

165 141 Whitney, Charles 59 M W Civil Engineer $2800 $2000 Massachusetts Male citizen over 21 -----, Elizabeth P. 54 F W Keeping House "

• 1880, Elwood, Atlantic Co., NJ:

Charles WHITNEY 71 Self M M W MA Retired Engineer MA MA Elizabeth P. WHITNEY 63 Wife F M W MA Keeping House MA MA

References

• Census records.

1.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 495, page 156.

2.^  "Charles [Whitney], of Norwich, Ct., and Elizabeth-P. Day, [married] Jan. 23, 1840," according to Franklin P. Rice, ed., Worcester Births, Marriages and Deaths. (Births 1714-1848; Marriages 1747-1848; Deaths, 1826-1848), Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, vol. 12 (1894).

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