Family:Whitney, Joseph Ernest (1858-1893)
Joseph Ernest9 Whitney (Joseph Lorenzo8, Paul7, Hezekiah6, Timothy5, Jonas4, Moses3, Richard2, John1), son of Joseph Lorenzo8 and Elizabeth Moulton (Swift) Whitney, was born 27 Feb 1858, Cornwall, CT, and died 25 Feb 1893, Colorado Springs, CO. He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, CO.[1]
He married, 13 Nov 1883, Syracuse, NY, Sarah Prince Turner, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Elizabeth (Hinds) Turner. She was born 3 Nov 1859, Oquawla, IL, and died after 1900.
She married secondly, 6 Apr 1894, Charles W. Morton, who ws born Jul 1855, NY, and died after 1900.
Obituary:
- "JOSEPH ERNEST WHITNEY, son of Joseph L Whitney, was born in Cornwall, Conn., on the 27th of February, 1858. After graduation from Yale he had charge of a small private school for boys in Elmira, N Y, until January, 1884, when he went to the Albany Academy as instructor in English and Rhetoric. He was called thence in the summer of 1884 to Yale College as Instructor in English, and remained here until December, 1888, when he went to Colorado on account of his health, which had begun to fail the previous year. He lived m Colorado Springs in increasing feebleness for over f oui years, and died there from hemorrhage of the lungs, on February 25, 1893, at the age of 35. His literary tastes were prominent in undergraduate days, and in spite of years of weakness he was able to do much woik of a high order in poetry and criticism; while by his courage and sweetness of spirit he won the deepest regard.
- "He married, November 15, 1883, Miss Sadie P. Turner, of New Haven, who survives him with their only child, a daughter."
Children of Joseph Ernest9 and Sarah Prince (Turner) Whitney:
i. Margaret10 Whitney, b. 13 Apr 1886, New Haven, CT.
Census
72 86 Morton, Charles W. Head W M Jul 1855 44 mar 6 New York England England Hardware merchant, Rents house -----, Sarah P. Wife W F Nov 1858 41 mar 6 3ch 3liv Illinois England Maine -----, Dorothy Dau W F Nov 1895 4 sgl Nebraska New York Illinois -----, Charles W. Son W M Feb 1898 1 sgl Nebraska New York Illinois Whitney, Margaret Sdau W F Apr 1886 14 sgl Connecticut Connecticut Illinois At school Larsen, Lena Srvt W F Jun 1875 24 sgl Germany Germany Germany Servant, Imm. 1882 Anderson, Ida Nurs W F May 1878 22 sgl Missouri Sweden Sweden Nurse girl
References
- Census records.
- Albert Henry Hinds, History and Genealogy of the Hinds Family (1899: Thurston Press, Portland, ME), p. 291.
1.^ Find A Grave Memorial #35159095, Joseph Ernest Whitney.
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