Mailing List:2002-09-04 03, Re: Various Miscellany, by Ron Kyser
Mailing List Archives > 2002-09-04 03, Re: Various Miscellany, by Ron Kyser
From: R R Kyser <sorryken -at- att.net> Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Re: Various Miscellany Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 03:14:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <007101c253c3$ef3018b0$cae0b8a1@BillWWinXP> And you can look all day in John's database and not find him, because he's in Henry's! Here's another, much smaller-time politician just across the lake: "In 1851 parts of Cheektowaga, Hamburg, and East Hamburg were organized into the town of 'Seneca'. On October 16, 1851, the New York State Legislature officially incorporated the town. The name was changed to West Seneca the following year to avoid confusion with a Town of Seneca in eastern New York State. On March 2, 1852, the first West Seneca Town Meeting was held in the home of Morgan S. Whitney. The first supervisor elected was Levi Ballou and Morgan Whitney was made the first town clerk." <a href="http://www.westseneca.net/history.html#History">http://www.westseneca.net/history.html#History</a> I didn't see him in the databases. Anybody know who(se) he is? Cheers, Ron Kyser On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 10:33 PM, Bill Whitney wrote: > To Marion and all the WHITNEY gang, > > Thanks for the list and don't forget > > Sir James Pliny Whitney, born Oct. 2, 1843, in Williamsburg Township, > Ontario, son of Richard Leet Whitney and Clarissa Jane Fairman. Whitney > was > the Premier of the province of Ontario from Jan 25, 1905 till his death > in > Sept. 25th, 1914. Richard Leet Whitney was a blacksmith and an immigrant > from the United States. Ontario is the largest and richest province in > Canada. James Whitney was the classical story of the "boy made good" > first > becoming a lawyer and then the leader of the Conservative Party of > Canada. > He was impoverished towards the end of his term, reportedly becasue he > paid > most of his Premier's expenses from his own pocket to prevent any > charges of > conflict of interest. He was knighted in 1908 for his efforts to fight > corruption in government. Two of his accomplishments were to introduce > the > Workman's Compensation Act and oversee the creation of Ontario Hydro, > based > on the electrical power stations at Niagara Falls. Today a large bronze > monument honours Whitney in Queen's Park, the center of provincial > government in Toronto, Ontario. > > What price for a politician of James Whitney's character today? > > W.G. Whitney > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marion" <marion2110 -at- lvcm.com> > To: <WHITNEY-L -at- rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 12:16 PM > Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] Various Miscellany > > >> Continuation of Who's Who--Historical Volume Whitneys >> 3. Eli Whitney; inventor, born Westboro, Massachusetts 8 Dec 1765. Son >> of >> Eli and Elizabeth (Fay) Whitney.; graduate Yale 1792; m. Henriette >> Frances >> Edwards 6 Jan 1817; 3 children; died New Haven, Connecticut 8 Jan 1825. >> >> 4. Josiah Dwight Whitney, geologist; born Northhampton, Massachusetts, >> 23 >> Nov 1819; son of Josiah Dwight and Sarah (Williston) Whitney; graduated > Yale >> 1839; married Louisa (Goodard) Howe June 1854; 1 daughter; died Lake >> Sunapee, New Hampshire 19 Aug 1896. >> >> 5.Thomas Richard Whitney, Congressman; born New York City 2 May 1807; >> Journalist; died New York City 12 April 1858; buried Greenwood >> Cemetery, >> Brooklyn. >> >> 6. William Dwight Whitney, Sanskrit scholar; born Northhampton, >> Massachusetts, 9 Feb 1827; son of Josiah Dwight and Sarah (Williston) >> Whitney; married Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin 27 Aug 1856, 3 sons, 3 > daughters >> including Marian Parker., died New Haven, Connecticut, 7 Jun 1894. >> >
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