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From: &quot;Carol L. Marston&quot; &lt;{{emailaddress|bytethis.com|cmarston}}&gt;
Subject: Prev. post
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:06:43 -0400

HI I had previously posted this to the group on June 25.  It was just
returned to me as undeliverable.  I believe that some of your received
it anyways.  I am posting it again.  Sorry for the inconvenience of two
long messages in one day but I had promised to to several folks and I
don't know who got it and who did not.  Thank goodness for the delete
button!  Carol

This is for those of you who requested the info from the book
Connecticut Valley, Massachusetts book in my posession.

MILTON BURRALL WHITNEY

Milton Burrall Whitney, an attorney and counselor-at-law by profession,
at Westfield, was born in the east parish of Granville,Hampden Co., Mass
Oct. 6, 1825.  He is of English decent, his ancestors having emigrated
from the mother country to New England early in the last century.

His great-grandfather, Uriah Whitney, served as a private in the
Continental army in the Revolutionary War and was taken prisoner by the
English at the battle of White Plannins, N.Y.  Owing to the limited
pecunieary means of his parents, Mr. Whitney enjoyed simply the
advantages of an ordinary common-school education in his youth, yet at
the early age of sixteen he was well qualified to teach in th district
schools, in which pursuit he met with marked success.  By the advice of
Rev. Timothy M. Cooley, D.D., the pastor of the Congregational Church in
East Granvillek, who was a fine classical scholar and a successful
teacher, and who took a deep interest in his welfare, he was induced to
commence the study of the classics, preparatory to admission to college.

He pursued his preparatory studies under the direction of his friend, D.
Cooley, much of the time at home, wlaking a distance of four miles
nearly every day to recite, until he entered the sophomore class,
Williams College, in 1846.  Although compelled, in order to procure the
funds necessary to prosecute his studies, to be absent from college for
the purpose of teaching one tern each year, during his collegiate
course, yet he was graduated with high honors in th eclass of 1849, one
of the largest and ablest classes which ever graduated at college.

After graduation he taught two years and then entered as a student the
law-office of Bates and Gillett, in Westfield, Mass.  He was admitted to
the Bar at Springfield, Mass., in June, 1853 and immediately afterward
formed a law parnership with Hon. Wm.G.Bates, with whom he continied in
practice about twelve years.  He is now the senior partner in the law
firm of Whitney and Dunbar, and has for several years been one of the
leading members of the Hampden County Bar.  He resided in Westfield,
Mass., since his admission to hte Bar.

Although claiming to be independent in politics, he has almost
invariably voted and acted with the Republican Party since its
organization.  He was elected to the Massachusetts Senate from the
wester Hampden Senatorial district in the fall of 1861, receiving all
but one hundred and four votes cast, having the largest majority ever
cast for any candidate in the district.  Although one of the youngest
members of the Senate he was appointed chairman of two important
committees, and a member of several others, and discharged the duties
with credit.

He  was relected the following year by a handsome majority; was
appointed a member of the committee on Federal Relations, and took an
active and leading part in the important legislation demanded by the war
of the Rebellion.  He was elected in the fall of 1868 as Presidential
elector of the Tenth Congressional District of Massachusetts.

He is now and has been for several years past a trustree and secretary
of the Westfield Savings-Bank, a director of the First National Bank of
Westfield, and also a director in several manufacturing corporations. 
He has been a trustee and chairman of the library committee of the
Westfiled Atheneum since its organization, and has always taken a deep
interest in its prosperity; and the choice collection of books upon its
shelves is largely due to his discriminating and scholarly taste.

Although his time and talents have been largely given to his profession,
yet Mr. Whitney had taken an active interest in all enterprises tending
to promote the social, intellectual, and moral prosperity of the town in
which he resides.

Taken from:
pages 958 and 959 (sketched portrait also available) 

History of the Connecticut Valley Massachusetts
with illustrations and bigraphical sketches of some of its prominent men
and pioneers

vol. II

Phildelphia
Louis H. Everts
1879

Press of J.B. Lippincott anf co., Philadelphia
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