Family:Whitney, Clarence Smyrna (1850-a1882)

Clarence Smyrna⁹ Whitney (Samuel⁸, Smyrna⁷, Samuel⁶, Samuel⁵, William⁴, Nathaniel³, John², John¹), son of Samuel⁸ and Carolina A. (Puffer) Whitney, was born 27 Mar 1850, Ashland, MA,^[1] and died after 1900.

He married, 18 Feb 1875, Providence, RI, Martha Watson Hunt. She was born 7 Jun 1849, Providence, RI, and died after 1900.

He was born at Ashland, MA, where his father was engaged in the manufacture of paper. After an excellent common school education he entered Phillips academy, Andover, MA, and was graduated in 1870. He then started into learn the paper business. At present he is associated with his brother in the wholesale paper business at 63 and 65 Essex St., Boston; resided Sutherland Road, Boston, MA, and Hyde Park, MA.

In 1882 he was a paper dealer living on Rockview St., Boston, MA.

Children of Clarence Smyrna⁹ and Martha Watson (Hunt) Whitney:

i.	Mary Erving10 Whitney, b. 17 Jun 1876, Hyde Park, MA;[2] m. 4 Nov 1903, Boston, MA[3] (also recorded Brockton, MA), Arthur H. Baker, of Brockton, b. ca. 1862, Waterbury, VT, son of Richard and Annette O. (Hawley) Baker.[4]
ii.	Laura Noble Whitney, b. 7 May 1882, Boston, MA;[5] m. 11 Oct 1904, Boston, MA, Edward P. Jastram, b. ca. 1873, Providence, RI, son of Pardon S. and Julia A. (Brown) Jastram.[6]

Census

• 1870, Andover, Essex Co., MA:

6 6 Atkinson, Rhoda W. 58 F W Keeping Boarding house Maine ... Whitney, Clarance 20 M W Student in Phillips Acadamy Mass. ...

• 1880, Boston, Suffolk Co., MA:

C. L. WHITNEY 30 Self M M W MA Paper & ... MA MA M. W. WHITNEY 29 Wife F M W RI House Keeper RI RI M. E. WHITNEY 3 Dau F S W MA School MA RI Mary GILL 23 Oth F W IRE Servant IRE IRE

• 1900, 82 Sutherland Road, Boston Ward 25, Suffolk Co., MA:

45 45 Whitney, Clarence S. Head W M Mar 1850 50 mar 25 Massachusetts Massachusetts Massachusetts Wh. baker & turne merch., Owns mortgaged house -----, Martha W. Wife W F Jun 1849 50 mar 25 2ch 2liv Rhode Island Connecticut Massachusetts -----, May E. Dau W F Jun 1876 23 sgl Massachusetts Massachusetts Rhode Island -----, Laura D. Dau W F May 1882 18 sgl Massachusetts Massachusetts Rhode Island At school McCormack, Mary Srvt W F Dec 1872 27 sgl Ireland Ireland Ireland Servant, Immig. 1889

References

• Census records.

• 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. 610.

1.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 43, page 36.

2.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 289, page 260.

3.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 539, page 237.

4.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 538, page 162.

5.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 333, page 198.

6.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 549, page 221.

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