Family:Whitney, George Wallace (1843-1881)

Rev. George Wallace⁹ Whitney (Samuel⁸, Samuel⁷, Asa⁶, Levi⁵, Daniel⁴, Jonathan³, Jonathan², John¹), son of Samuel⁸ and Lydia M. (Stowell) Whitney, was born 27 Mar 1843, Nashville or Nashua, NH, and died 26 May 1881, Waltham, MA, aged 38 years 2 months, of a severe hemorrhage, or of phthisis.^[1]

He married, 13 May 1868 [Pierce] or 21 May 1867, Gardner or Westminster, MA, Lucy Ann Harrington, of Westminster, daughter of Daniel and Nancy (White) Harrington.^[2] She was born 14 Sep 1848, Westminster, MA, and died 9 Mar 1917.

After leaving the Nashua high school he studied theology with Rev. H. Closson, of Cavendish, VT, and preached his first sermon (text Ps. lxi:2) on his twenty-first birthday. Removing to Massachusetts he was settled at W. Boylston, Westminster, Beverly (five years) and Quincy (six years). Apr 1878, he became pastor of the Augusta M. E. church, preaching his last sermon 2 Jan 1881. He was then prostrated by a severe hemorrhage, which led to his death in Waltham, MA, at his father's home, 26 May 1881. He was a ready and eloquent extempore preacher, a man of large sympathy and spirituality, and a very devoted pastor. He was a zealous member of the Masonic fraternity, being a Knight Templar. Augusta Lodge, of which he was chaplain, printed a series of very appreciative resolutions after his decease, and the religious and secular papers alluded to his work and character in terms of high praise. He died 26 May 1881; resided Waltham, MA.

Was a Universalist minister and lived in Quincy, Saugus, Westminster, Mass., and Augusta, Me.

No children.

Census

• 1870, Beverly, Essex Co., MA:

132 213 Wallis, Luther 55 M W Shoemaker $6000 $1200 Mass. Male citizen over 21 " Elizth. B. 55 F W Keeping house " " Fanny F. 20 F W At Home " " Austin E. 18 M W Clerk in Store " " Alice 16 F W Attending School " Attended school " Arthur W. 5 M W Attending School " Attended school Whitney, George 27 M W Minister $600 " Male citizen over 21 " Lucy H. 22 F W Keeping house "

• 1880, Waltham, Middlesex Co., MA:

Samuel WHITNEY 62 Self M M W MA Works In Watch Factory MA MA Lidia S. WHITNEY 61 Wife F M W VT Keeping House MA MA George W. WHITNEY 37 Son M M W NH At Home MA VT Charles H. WHITNEY 19 Son M S W NH At School MA VT Lucy H. WHITNEY 32 DauL F M W MA At Home MA 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. 650.

• Stowell, William Henry Harrison, Stowell genealogy: a record of the descendants of Samuel Stowell, of Hingham, Mass., {Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1922), pp. 231-234.

1.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 329, page 208.

2.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 201, pages 211 and 289.

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