S. C. Whitney Biography

Cutler, William G., History of the State of Kansas, published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Coffey County.

Biographies, Ottumwa Township

S. C. WHITNEY, farmer, P. O. Ottumwa, was born in Essex County, New York, in 1826, and lived there eighteen years and moved to Licking County, Ohio, and lived in that State seven years and moved to Springfield, Illinois, and lived there twenty-one years and came to Kansas in 1871 and located in Franklin County and lived there nine years, and located in Ottumwa Township, Coffey County, in 1880, and has been engaged in farming and sheep raising. Mr. Whitney was married in Springfield, Illinois, in 1852, to Miss Isabel Wolgamat, a native of Pennsylvania, and has five children -- Barbara H., David, S. Betsy, Katy, and May. Mr. Whitney is a member of the Advent Church.

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