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1. All data imported from [[Archive:The Descendants of John Whitney, page 507|Frederick Clifton Pierce, ''The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635'', (Chicago: 1895), pp. 507-508]]. | 1. All data imported from [[Archive:The Descendants of John Whitney, page 507|Frederick Clifton Pierce, ''The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635'', (Chicago: 1895), pp. 507-508]]. | ||
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William Clarence8 Whitney (William Wallace7, Paul6, Aaron5, Jonas4, Moses3, Richard2, John1), born 21 Oct 1858; married 2 Jul 1882, Mary Lyde Marks; born Aug. 7, 1867.
After leaving Missisquoe college, he learned the printer's trade, and worked several years in the Green Mountain Freeman office, Montpelier, Vermont. In 1877 he left Montpelier, thinking well of Horace Greeley's advice, going west by way of New York, Niagara, and Chicago, to St. Louis. From there went to Lebanon, Illinois, to visit his sister's family, and went with them by boat to St. Paul, Minnesota, and from there to Minneapolis, where he remained all summer, until the 18th of December, when he went back to St. Louis, and took a position with the Times Printing County. In May,
1879, he went to Shreveport, Louisiana, and took charge of the
Standard job office, the only large office in the city. His
health was bad all the time he was in Shreveport, and he
left there in June, 1880, and went to Marshall, Texas, and
went to work for Jennings Bros., the largest book and job
printing establishment then in Texas. It was said that he
was the best job printer in the state, and the fastest com
positor. On 2 Jun 1882, he was united in marriage to
[Photo] Miss Mary Lyde Marks, of Marshall, Texas. The Herald
had the following to say of her: "The bride, who is the
daughter of Mrs. N. E. Marks, is an interesting young
lady of only fourteen years, possessed of those gentle
qualities of heart and mind which win the love of all who
know her, and adorned with that native modesty which
needed not the bridal veil to increase its charm and attrac
tion." In 1883 he went to New Orleans, where he was for
four or five years working at job printing part of the time
and part of the time assistant foreman of the Daily States. William C. Whitney. He returned to Marshall in 1887, where he again took the
foremanship of Jennings' office, and where he has since been. In January, 1894, he started the Senatorian, which is slowly increasing in prosperity; resided Marshall, Texas, s. p.
References
1. All data imported from Frederick Clifton Pierce, The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, (Chicago: 1895), pp. 507-508.
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