| Sources:
1. LDS. Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service:
IGI - International Genealogical Index (online at FamilySearch.org).
Sam WHITNEY
Spouse: Ann SROUP
Marriage: 21 Apr 1836, Macomb, Michigan
Source: Marriage Records, 1819-1927. Macomb County (Michigan).
County Clerk |
2. 1840 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image
#8-9 of 10 — numerical pages are listed before name pages; extracted by
Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| 1840 |
MI |
Macomb Co. |
Macomb |
Roll 208 |
pp. 249A-249B |
Ln. 5 |
S Whitney |
100 010 - 100 010 |
0100000 |
These data indicate:
| No. & Sex |
Age Class |
Therefore Born |
Individuals Inferred |
| 1 male |
4 or under |
1835-1840 |
= Jason (b. 1838/9) |
| 1 male |
20-29 |
1810-1820 |
= Samuel (b. 1811) |
| 1 female |
4 or under |
1835-1840 |
= Sophronia (b. 1836/7) |
| 1 female |
20-29 |
1810-1820 |
= Ann (b. 1818/9) |
| 1 |
person employed in agriculture |
Listed two lines below J. STROUP and two lines above J. WHITNEY.
3. 1850 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com;
Image #11 of 19): Town of Macomb, Macomb Co., MI, Roll M432_357,
p. 32A/63, 453/458, enumerated 28 Aug 1850, official enumeration date 1
Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| Samuel Whitney |
38 |
M |
|
Farmer |
1200 |
NY |
| Ann
" |
31 |
F |
|
|
|
" |
| Sephrona " |
13 |
F |
|
|
|
Mich |
| Jason
" |
11 |
M |
|
|
|
" |
| William H " |
9 |
M |
|
|
|
" |
| Esther A " |
7 |
F |
|
|
|
" |
| George C " |
6 |
M |
|
|
|
" |
| Isaac M " |
4 |
M |
|
|
|
" |
| Samuel E " |
2 |
M |
|
|
|
" |
| Loton? D " |
4/12 |
M |
|
|
|
" |
Listed two households from Samuel's brother, John WHITNEY, who is listed
next to Ann's father, George STROUP.
4. 1860 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com,
Image #10 of 35): Utica P.O., Town of Macomb, Macomb Co., MI, Roll
M653_553, p. 840, PN 10, 93/81, enumerated 5 Jun 1860, official enumeration
date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| Samuel Whitney |
48 |
M |
|
Farmer |
4000 |
1265 |
New York |
| Ann
" |
41 |
F |
|
Domestic |
|
|
" " |
| William H " |
19 |
M |
|
Farm Laborer |
|
|
Michigan |
| Esther A " |
17 |
F |
|
Domestic |
|
|
" |
| George C " |
15 |
M |
|
|
|
|
" |
| Isaac M " |
13 |
M |
|
|
|
|
" |
| Samuel E " |
11 |
M |
|
|
|
|
" |
| Laton D " |
9 |
M |
|
|
|
|
" |
| Milo H " |
7 |
M |
|
|
|
|
" |
| Lora A " |
6 |
F |
|
|
|
|
" |
| Allen S " |
3 |
M |
|
|
|
|
" |
Listed two households from Samuel's brother, John WHITNEY.
5. 1870 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com,
Image #16 of 46): Macomb P.O., Macomb Twp., Macomb Co., MI, Roll
M593_688, p. 8B, PN 16, 125/128, enumerated 30 Jun 1870, official enumeration
date 1 Jun 1870 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| Whitney Samuel |
59 |
M |
W |
Farmer |
10,500 |
2640 |
New York |
| _______ Ann |
51 |
F |
W |
Keeping House |
|
|
New York |
| _______ Sophronia |
31 |
F |
W |
School Teacher |
|
|
Michigan |
| _______ Alice |
16 |
F |
W |
At Home |
|
|
Michigan |
| _______ Hattie |
5 |
F |
W |
At School |
|
|
Michigan |
| _______ George |
26 |
M |
W |
Works on Farm |
|
|
Michigan |
| _______ Dennis |
20 |
M |
W |
Works on Farm |
|
|
Michigan |
| _______ Milo |
18 |
M |
W |
Works on Farm |
|
|
Michigan |
| _______ Allen |
13 |
M |
W |
Works on Farm |
|
|
Michigan |
| _______ Eugene |
10 |
M |
W |
At School |
|
|
Michigan |
| Wood Elizbeth |
23 |
F |
W |
School Teacher |
|
|
Michigan |
I cannot explain the ordering of the children other than as an excess of
courtesy that has the females listed before the males. Listed two
households from Samuel's brother, John WHITNEY.
6. 1880 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com,
Image #19 of 41): Macomb Twp., Macomb Co., MI, Roll T9_592, p. 469C,
PN 19, SD 5, ED 208, enumerated 15 Jun 1880, official enumeration date
1 Jun 1880 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
1880: for an explanation of the column
headings, please see
What
the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained
no data). |
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
13 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
| 196 |
194 |
Whitney Samuel |
W |
M |
68 |
|
|
/ |
Farmer |
NY |
MA |
PA |
| |
|
_______ Ann |
W |
F |
61 |
Wife |
|
/ |
Keeping house |
NY |
PA |
PA |
| |
|
_______ Dennis L |
W |
M |
30 |
Son |
/ |
|
Farmer |
MI |
NY |
NY |
| |
|
_______ Milo H |
W |
M |
28 |
Son |
/ |
|
Farm Laborer |
MI |
NY |
NY |
7. 1890 Census: the 1890 Census Population Schedules
were destroyed.
8. Anon. 1882. History of Macomb County, Michigan.
M.A. Leeson & Co., Chicago (online at HeritageQuest at Genealogy.com).
On p. 777:
| SAMUEL WHITNEY, born July 9, 1811, in the town of Middlesex,
Ontario County, now Potter, Yates Co., N.Y., son of Isaac and Susanna
(Turnback) Whitney; his father was born in Massachusetts and his mother
was born in Pennsylvania; his father died when Samuel was six years of
age. Isaac Whitney left Massachusetts and emigrated to New
York at an early date and died in 1817; his chances for education in the
early days were limited, probably his attendance at school not exceeding
in all two years; his mother died February 9, 1867, in Ray Township; the
family came to Michigan, landed in Detroit September 2, 1834, from Pennsylvania,
where they passed about two years previous to coming here; he located in
Macomb Township on an eighty-acre lot, purchased from the Government; the
next year he added forty acres more of Government land; in 1853, he added
eighty acres more, making in all a farm of 200 acres; when he first came
in, George Stroup was his nearest neighbor, and Mr. Whitney cUt
a road from the Stroup farm to his own; he made all his improvements hiimself.
He was married, April 21, 1836, to Ann Stroup, daughter of George
Stroup. The Indians were plenty, often called and stayed overnight.
The wolves were also very plenty and committed depredation on his young
stock many times, carrying off a fine sheep or calf. Politically,
Mr. Whitney is a Whig, an has always tried to fight the Democratic party
all the way through; since the Whig party went down, he was one of the
first members of the Republican party. When the town was connected
with Chesterfield, he was elected one of the School Inspectors; in 1842,
he was elected Justice of the Peace, which he held four years; in 1856,
he was elected Supervisor of Macomb, and again ran, in 1857, but lost it
by four votes, owing to his strict temperance principles, which were opposed
by many of the Germans of the town; in 1858, he was elected Supervisor,
which he held one year; he was a strong temperance man and has done all
in his power to advance that cause; he is a good friend and neighbor and
has been a witness of the advance of the county from its wilderness condition;
he is the father of thirteen children, nine sons and four daughters — Sophronia,
William
H., Esther Ann, wife of Warren Crawford, of North Branch,
Lapeer County; Jason C., married Elida Barney, residing at
Fort
Sanilac; William H., married Mary E. Kellogg, of Maple Grove, Barry County;
George C., married to Martha J. Friese, resides in Macomb Township, Milton
J.,
married Elizabeth Fuller, resides in Negaunee, Principal of the
school there; Samuel E., Principal of the Hancock High School; Lora
A., wife of Ira H. Briggs, resides in Macomb Township; Allen
S., teaching the Quincy School, near Hancock; Eugene C., Loton
D., Milo H., Florence H.; two of the sonS — Milton
J.
and George C. — were in the war and honorably discharged at its
close. When Mr. S. raised his house, which was one of the first in
the county, he was told it could not be put up without the use of liquor;
he made three efforts to raise the building without success, and finally
went up in the Macomb neighborhood, told the people there the circumstances
of his case, and they turned in and raised the house, which was the first
temperance building put up in the Whitney neighborhood. |
| I can find no such place as "Fort" Sanilac, but there is a Port
Sanilac in Sanilac County; and a quick check of the 1880 census shows a
Jason C. WHITNEY (æ 41) in Port Sanilac. There is also a bio
of Samuel's brother, John WHITNEY, who married 17 May 1838 in Macomb Co.,
MI, to Phoebe NELSON, daughter of Richard NELSON & Ann VAUGHN. |
9. Frederick Clifton Pierce. 1895. The Descendants
of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts,
in 1635. Self-published, Chicago (transcribed by and online at
the Whitney Research Group web site, www.whitneygen.org):
| p. 239 |
1709. SAMUEL WHITNEY (Isaac, Jason, Mark, Benjamin,
John), b. Middlesex, N.Y.,
July 9, 1811; m. at Macomb, Mich., Apr. 21, 1836, Ann STROUP; b.
Mar. 5, 1819.
He was born in Middlesex, Ontario Co., N. Y., now Potter,
Yates Co. He
migrated to Michigan in 1834, settling in Detroit, where he resided
for two years
going then to a farm at Macomb, which he purchased of the government,
where he
ever after resided. He d. Apr. 26, 1889; res. Macomb, Mich.
3658. i. JASON C., b.
Feb. 9, 1839; m. Elida BERNEY and Lettie E. HEYMAN.
3659. ii. SOPHRONIA, b. May
16, 1837; unm.; res. Mt. Clemens, Mich.
3660. iii. WM. H., b. Dec. 16, 1840;
m. Mary Euretta KELLOGG.
3661. iv. ESTHER A., b. Sept.
1, 1842; m. Aug. 27, 1873, Warren CRAWFORD;
res. Kings Mill, Mich.; 5 ch.
3662. v. GEORGE CLAY,
b. June 4, 1846; m. Martha A. FREIS.
3663. vi. MILTON I., b. June
4, 1846; m. Elizabeth M. FULLER.
3664. vii. SAMUEL EMORY, b. Mar.
28, 1848; res. 23 Adams Ave., Detroit,
Mich. S. Emory WHITNEY was born at Mt. Clemens, Mich.
His father, a native of New York, was raised on a farm, occa-
sionally as a diversion teaching district school for a term, or
commanding a boat for a season on the Erie canal. In 1834,
when 23 years of age, he emigrated to Michigan, purchased 20
acres of land near Mt. Clemens from the government, upon
which he lived till the time of his death. S. Emory lived on his
father's farm till well along in his teens, attending district
school three or four months of the year. Abandoning the farm,
he chose teaching as his profession, attended the Normal school |
| p. 240 |
of his state, from which he graduated in 1872, since which time
he has been employed in his profession. Since graduation he
has occupied the position of supt. of schools at Armada, Marine
City, and Hancock, Mich., coming to Detroit in 1885 as princi-
pal of the Cass school -- one of the most prominent public schools
in the state. Of a social as well as professional nature, he is a
[Photo]
S. E. WHITNEY.
member of several fraternal societies, ranking high in masonic
circles, and has also held several elective offices. A recent
publication entitled, "Prominent Educators of Michigan" con-
tains a very complimentary notice of him and his work. The
subject of this sketch is unmarried. |
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