When Elizabeth J Whitney was born on 14 August 1823, in Wysox, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Elliot Whitney, was 32 and her mother, Maria Polly Goodwin, was 26. She married Dr. David L. Scott in 1845. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Towanda, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Washington, District of Columbia, United States for about 20 years. She died on 24 January 1906, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Towanda, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English: habitational name from Whitney in Herefordshire, the etymology of which is uncertain. The second element is Old English ēg ‘island, piece of higher ground in a low-lying area’; the first appears to be hwītan, which is either the genitive singular of an Old English byname Hwīta (meaning ‘white’), or the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of the adjective hwīt ‘white’. The name may also derive from Whitney (now Whitney Wood) in Stevenage (Hertfordshire), probably named from Old English hwītan ‘white’ + (ge)hæge ‘enclosure’.
History: John Whitney came from London, England, to Watertown, MA, in 1635, and had numerous prominent descendents.
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