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My Whitney Line First Line: ThomasA Whitney, m. Mary Bray John1 Whitney, m.(1) Elinor ----- Thomas2 Whitney, m. Mary Kedell Isaiah3 Whitney, m. Sarah (Woodward) Eddy John4 Whitney, m. Rebecca4 Whitney (see below) Ezra5 Whitney, m. Agnis ----- Ezra6 Whitney, m. Sally Hooker Andrew7 Whitney, m. Clementine Scott Andrew8 Whitney, m. Anna Beach Willie AKA William Andrew9 Whitney, m. Effie May Goodrich George Andrew10 Whitney, m. Mary Elpha Cain Charles Henry11 Whitney, m. Anna Esther Lawson Janice Karen12 Whitney, dv. Second Line: ThomasA Whitney, m. Mary Bray John1 Whitney, m.(1) Elinor ----- Richard2 Whitney, m. Martha Coldam Moses3 Whitney, m. Sarah Knight Link here is probable. Rebecca4 Whitney, m. John4 Whitney (see above)

I started researching my Whitney ancestry using information from what my mother, Anna E. Whitney, had worked on 1991-1993. This was without computers and such. When I took up where she left off, I found that what she had written down was not right. I searched for my great-grandfather's record of his parents. I hit a brick wall. Until I found the marriage license of my great-grandfather to his wife, Effie May Goodrich, in Rock, Wisconsin on 17 Oct. 1889. (Indexing Project (Batch) Number: 100322-9; Source of system orgin: Wisconsin-ODM; Source Film Number: 1275533)

Listed on the license is Andrew Whitney as his father and Anna Beach as his mother. Which finally gave the break through. In the 1870 Census NY, Allegany Co, Burns, page 17/500 is listed the children of Andrew and Anna Whitney, a "Willie" which the age added up to my great-grandfather, William Andrew Whitney.

William Andrew Whitney was born 9 June 1863 in Burns, NY. In the 1880's his family then moved to Stillman Valley, Illinois. He was also an inventor. At the time of his death he has 19 patents. William Andrew Whitney started the W.A. Whitney Manufacturing Co. in Oregon, Illinois, in Aug. 1907. He left the company in 1911.

(Note: further information is located in the Bio of the Whitney Co. website, www.wawhitney.com, under "Humble Beginnings: 1907-49".)

1918 he moved back to Oregon, Illinois. In the bio it mentions that he still worked on inventing things in his barn. I remember my Aunt Louise (Esther Louse Whitney) telling of at his death he was working on the rotary engine for the auto industry. And that Effie, her grandmother, was so angry with him for dying, that she took all his drawings and such and just through them out the window. I have always wondered about what she had thrown out and who picked them up. My father Charles Henry Whitney did not talk much about his family to me even as an adult. Aunt Louise gave me more information about his life then he did. Just too bad that the one and only time that I got to have a great talk with her was when Dad died in 1981.

William and Effie had three children,

Florence (Flossie) Whitney, b. 23 Jan. 1889-92 d. 1971. m. (1) Victor Merchant, m. (2) Ernest Russel, believe that she had no children. George Andrew Whitney, b. 18 Dec. 1893, d. 14 July 1957. m. Mary Elpha Cain b. 22 Feb 1897 d. 1 June 1940 c. Marvin Edgar Whitney b. 8 Nov 1915 d. ? m. Emma Jean Duke (Canadian) b. 1 Oct 1914 d. ? c. Charles Henry Whitney b. 20 Nov. 1917 d. 18 Feb 1981 m. Anna Esther Lawson b. 8 Sept 1920 d. 14 Dec 2004 c. Kermit Charles Whitney b. 9 June 1942 d. Aug 2005 c. Geraldine Ann Whitney b. 23 Feb 1944 c. Janice Karen Whitney b. 18 Dec 1953 c. Esther Louse Whitney b. 24 Aug 1919, d. 20 Feb 1991. c. Gwendolyn Arlene Whitney b. 4 Aug 1922 d. 4 Feb 1940 c. John William Whitney b. 13 May 1925 d. Jan 1975 c. George Roger Whitney b. 9 March 1932 d. 18 Aug 1932

(Note: In all of the Census of Illinois (Byron, Rockford or Winnebago Co's) that I found on William Andrew and Effie May Whitney, that George, my grandfather was listed as female and daughter. But I know for a fact that he was the son and male.)

Gladys F. Whitney b. 20 Jan 1898 d. May 1979 m. (1) Frank Burghard Hilgar m.(2) Carl Gleen