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Harriet Jane9Whitney (David B.8, Samuel7, Samuel6, Joseph5, Timothy4, John3, John2, John1),
was born 5 Feb 1834, Wisconsin, and died 27 Aug 1898, Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California.
Harriet Jane Whitney, married 21 Nov 1854 (some references show 1853), Calaveras County, California, Jacob A Doan, son of Joseph and Eliza D. (Carpenter) Doan. He was born 15 Sep 1828, Wilmington, Clinton, Ohio, and died 21 Nov 1902, Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California.
Jacob Doan, born in Clinton county, Ohio, September 17, 1828, receiving his early education in the schools of the Society of Friends and finishing his training at Springfield Academy, afterwards studying medicine under Dr. Davis. In 1850 he crossed the plains to California, arriving in Sacramento the day the State was admitted into the Union. After a short stay in that place, he proceeded to the mines in Calaveras County, and prosecuted his search for gold, at Memphis and Douglas Flat for five years. By this time, he had saved about five thousand dollars with which he came to Santa Clara county and invested in his present farm comprising two hundred and ninety-three acres, in April, 1856. He was elected Justice of the Peace for Gilroy township, in 1868, an office he held for four years. He married, November 21, 1854, Mrs. H. J. Whitney, a native of Wisconsin and has Francis I., Walter C, Clinton W, Agnes C, Jacob N., Hattie Grace and Helen Dot, all of whom first saw the light under the homestead roof that now shelter them. [1]
Children of Jacob A and Harriet Jane (Whitney) Doan:
i. Francis Ida Doan, b. 24 Jul 1855, Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California; d. 10 Mar 1935, Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California. ii. Walter C Doan, b. 01 Jan 1857, Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California; d. 6 Jan 1939, Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California. iii. Clinton Whitney Doan, b. 12 Mar 1859, Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California; d. 12 Dec 1951, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California. iv. Agnes C Doan, b. 23 Dec 1860, Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California; d. 15 Oct 1894, Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California. v. Jacob N Doan, b. 26 Apr 1866, Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California; d. 1926, Gilroy, Santa Clara, California, USANE. vi. Hattie Grace Doan, b. 19 Apr 1869, Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California; d. 7 Jul 1888, Gilroy, Santa Clara, California, USA. vii. Helen Dot Doan, b. 26 Mar 1875, Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California; d. 12 Feb 1956, Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California.
References
1.^ History of Santa Clara County, pub. by Alley, Bowen and Co 1881.
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