Family:Whitney, Benjamin Holt (1843-a1874)

Benjamin Holt⁹ Whitney (John⁸, John⁷, Silas⁶, Daniel⁵, Richard⁴, Richard³, Richard², John¹), son of John⁸ and Mary Baldwin (Holt) Whitney, was born 13 Nov 1843, Wayland, MA,^[1] and died after 1874.

He, of Toledo, OH, married, 14 Jan 1874, Pittsfield, MA, Kate L. Goodman. daughter of William W. and Mary E. (-----) Goodman.^[2] She was born 8 Aug 1845, Pittsfield, MA.

B. H. Whitney was educated at Chauncy Hall, Boston, served three years' apprenticeship, 1859-61, with the publishing house of Ticknor & Fields; then in employ of Boston & Worcester railway as freight agent, 1861-67, at Brighton, MA, then went to Toledo, 1867, with the firm of H. W. Sage & County, wholesale lumber, as bookkeeper, manager and partner; then of firm of Whitney & Tracy, wholesale lumber, now manager at Toledo, OH, for the wholesale lumber firm of George N. Fletcher & Sons; resided Toledo, OH, s. p.

Benjamin Holt⁹ and Kate L. (Goodman) Whitney had no children.

Census

• 1870, Toledo Ward 5, Lucas Co., OH:

56 64 Fox, Charley 40 M W Foreman Lumber yd. $4000 -- Bravary Parents foreign born, Male citizen over 21 -----, Sarah 50 F W Keeping House England Parents foreign born -----, Charles 12 M W Mass. Parents foreign born, Attended school -----, Elizabeth 9 F W Mass. Parents foreign born, Attended school 65 More, Frank 24 M W Clerk in lumber office Michigan Male citizen over 21 Whitney, Benj. 27 M W Do Do Mass. Male citizen over 21

• 1880: not found.

References

• All data imported from Frederick Clifton Pierce, The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, (Chicago: 1895), p. 628.

1.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 5, page 102.

2.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 262, page 60.

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