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Whitney, Caspar

journalist, author, was born in 1861 in Massachusetts. He is a journalist of New York city, a prominent advocate of amateur sports; and the author of A Sporting Pilgrimage; and On Snow Shoes to the Barren Grounds.

Whitney, Charles S

railroad president, was born Feb. 9, 1824, in Gallipolis, Ohio. He is president of the Bradford and Western Pennsylvania railroad at Belmont, N. Y.

Whitney, Eli

inventor, was born Dec. 8, 1765, in Westborough, Mass. The first of his inventions was the cotton gin, which he was stimulated to devise by the widow of Nathaniel Green. He afterward reaped a fortune by his various improvements on fire-arms, the manufacturing of which became the origin of the flourishing village of Whitneyville, Conn. He died Jan. 8, 1825, in New Haven, Conn.

Whitney, George

clergyman, author, was born July 2, 1804, in Quincy, Mass. He was pastor of churches in Roxbury. He published Some Account of the Early History and Present State of the Town of Quincy, Mass., of which he was preparing an enlarged edition at the time of his death. He died April 2, 1842, in Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Whitney, George J

railroad manager, was born Jan. 26, 1819, in Verona, N. Y. In 1857 he built the Whitney elevator, one of the largest erected up to that time.

Whitney, Josiah Dwight

educator, geologist, author, was born Nov. 23, 1819, in Northampton, Mass. He was a professor of geology at Harvard university from 1865, and state geologist of California in 1860-74. He was the author of The United States; The Metallic Wealth of the United States; Barometric Hypsometry; Polypetalæ; and Gamopetalæ; Contributions to American Geology; Names and Places, Studies in Geography and Topographical Nomenclature; Geological Survey of California; Yosemite Guide Book; and Geological Survey of Iowa. He died in 1896.

Whitney, Levi Lincoln

manufacturer, legislator, was born Jan. 20, 1858, in Princeton, Mass. In 1881 he was elected and served as a member of the Massachusetts state legislature; and in 1889 became a state senator. WHITNEY, MRS. LOUISA GODDARD, author, was born Dec. 17, 1819, in England. She was the author of The Burning of the Convent; and Peasy's Childhood, an Autobiography. She died May 13, 1882, in Cambridge, Mass.

Whitney, Myron W

singer, was born Sept. 5, 1836, in Ashbury, Mass.

In 1876 he was the principal solo-singer at the opening exercises of the Centennial exhibition in Philadelphia. Since that year he has sung in his native country, and has appeared in nearly all the May festivals held in different cities of the union.

Whitney, Orson F

clergyman, author, poet, was born July 1, 1855, in Salt Lake City, Utah. For many years he was editor of The Deseret News of Utah; and was later city treasurer of Salt Lake City. He is a bishop of the Morchurch; and the author of History of Utah, in three volumes; and a volume of Poetical Writings. He is also a constant contributor to the leadmon ing newspapers and magazines of the United States.

Whitney, Peter

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 6, 1744, in Northborough, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman, pastor at Northborough, Mass., in 1767-1815; and the author of History of Worcester County. He died Feb. 29, 1816, in Northborough, Mass.

Whitney, William Collins

lawyer, secretary of navy, was born July 15, 1841, in Conway, Mass. In 1872 he was appointed inspector of schools in the city of New York. In 1875 was appointed corporation counsel of the city of New York; and was re-appointed in 1876 and 1880.

In 1885 he became secretary of the navy in the cabinet of President Cleveland.