Mailing List:2007-06-18 02, Re: Whitney Letter on eBay, by Ron Kyser
Mailing List Archives > 2007-06-18 02, Re: Whitney Letter on eBay, by Ron Kyser
From: R R Kyser <sorryken -at- att.net> Subject: Re: [WHITNEY] Whitney Letter on eBay Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:17:46 -0500 References: <20070618112844.4c0ddfa86d7d5dae25bdeaecb240b680.13acbf23d3.wbe@email.secureserver.net> In-Reply-To: <20070618112844.4c0ddfa86d7d5dae25bdeaecb240b680.13acbf23d3.wbe@email.secureserver.net> This is Virgil-8 (Joshua-7 Joshua-6 Thomas-5 William-4 William-3 Joshua-2 John-1). According to Marjory B Hinman's "Bingham's Land, Whitney's Town", "The year 1823 was a busy time for Virgil. His mother died, daughter Adeline was born, and he accepted the position of Postmaster of Chenango Point. He held this position for thirteen years, and during that time, in 1834, the village was incorporated. In honor of the patentee, it formally received the name Binghamton... Simultaneously with the post office position, in 1823, Virgil began a sawmill and general store in Conklin." (p. 131-2. Lest we be too impressed, this section of Mrs Hinman's book is headed "The Misfortunes of Virgil".) Later, "Because he was out of town so much with lumbering in Baltimore and helping [brother] William in New Orleans Virgil lost his job as Postmaster of Binghamton in January 1836..." (p. 143) The canal business is not mentioned in the book. But it quotes his memoirs about his move to Baltimore in 1833 which may shed light on his attitude at the time it was written: "I had been so successful that I lost my natural caution and felt as if fortune was so settled on my side that whatever I touched was a success." (p.132) The author then lists several books about these Whitneys' experience in New Orleans, generally centered around William's heiress wife Myra. I can list these myself in a later post if anyone is interested. Cheers, Ron Kyse On Jun 18, 2007, at 1:28 PM, tim -at- greenscourt.com wrote: > FYI > > According to the eBay summary, there was a Virgil Whitney who was Post > Master of Binghamton from 1823 to 1833. > >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Whitney family >> From: "G.T. Bishop" >> Date: Mon, June 18, 2007 12:40 pm >> >> Hello, >> I don't know if you'd be interested in this or not, but there is an >> 1831 Albany, NY letter written by V. Whitney (of Binghamton, NY) >> that is for auction on www.ebay.com. For more details and a photo >> see: >> >> <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140130294271">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140130294271</a> >> >> Anyway, good luck with your genealogy, G.T. Bishop > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WHITNEY-request -at- rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
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