Family:Whitney, John L. (1856-?)

John L.⁹ Whitney (John Clark⁸, Samuel⁷, Samuel⁶, Joseph⁵, Timothy⁴, John³, John², John¹), son of John Clark⁸ and Harriet Y. (Dickenson) Whitney, was born 1 Oct 1856, Weyauwega, WI.

He married, 3 Nov 1877, Emma J. Patterson. She was born 25 Jan 1859.

He was born in Weyauwega, WI, resided there and married his wife there. A few years after marriage he entered into business, furniture, sewing machines and musical merchandise, at Weyauwega; after four years he sold and moved with his family to Los Angeles, CA, in 1886, and in 1887 removed to Azusa, which is twenty-one miles east of Los Angeles; there he built a store and engaged in general merchandise. After two years he sold and removed to Hoquiam, WA, where he engaged in the real estate business, and remained there until 17 Sep 1893, when with his family he went east visiting Chicago, Washington, District of Columbia, New York and Niagara Falls. At present (1894) he resides at Colorado Springs, CO; resided Peekskill, NY, and Colorado Springs, CO.

Children of John L.⁹ and Emma J. (Patterson) Whitney:

i.	Mabel I.10 Whitney, b. 7 Nov 1878.

Census

• 1880, Weyauwega, Waupaca Co., WI:

John WHITNEY 23 Self M M W WI Painter NY NY Emma WHITNEY 23 Wife F M W WI Keeping House IRE NY Mabel WHITNEY 1 Dau F S W WI WI WI

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. 595.

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