When William Whitney was born on 21 April 1791, in Tioga, New York, United States, his father, Joshua Whitney, was 42 and his mother, Hannah Green, was 41. He married Charlotte Green Park on 10 January 1819. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Triangle, Broome, New York, United States in 1850 and Lima Township, Licking, Ohio, United States in 1870. He died on 17 October 1850, in Whitney Point, Triangle, Broome, New York, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Whitney Point, Triangle, Broome, New York, 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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