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Why I am interested in George Irwin Whitney
According to a handed-down story in my family, my father was once named "George Irwin Whitney Ritchie". I, in fact, have an eight inch diameter sterling silver plate that commemorates my father's birth with the engraved inscription "George Irwin Whitney Ritchie / from / Geo. I. Whitney / April 1st 1904" as the photo shows.
As the story goes, my grandfather and George Irwin Whitney were partners in a bank around the time of my father's birth on April 1, 1904. At that point, the family was living in Washington, Pennsylvania.
This seems to connect with the information related to Family:Whitney, George Irwin (1847-a1880) . It also seems to connect to the Archives of the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta relating to the Sigma Chapter at Western University of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pittsburg) 1863-1870.
Due to a falling out, my father's name was changed -- the reasons for which, for present purposes, and lack of corroboration, it seems kinder to omit.
After that point, he was no longer named George Irwin Whitney Ritchie. Is there any information on what happened to George Irwin Whitney later on in life from, say, 1900 onward?
Answering my own question (though I know that is considered to be bad form), I'd like to mention that very accidentally, I have run on to a mention of "George Irving Whitney" in George Irving Whitney of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania quoting an article concerning Wireless Telegraph Consolidation in Electrical World, November 24, 1906, page 984 in which George Irving Whitney is said to be a Director on a new company The United Wireless Telegraph Company which will consolidate two other Telegraph Companies. All of this suggests that perhaps the "George Irwin Whitney" and the "George Irving Whitney" are one and the same???
