When Everett Cliford Whitney was born on 1 August 1891, in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Henry S. Whitney, was 44 and his mother, Clymena Farrow, was 39. He married Lennie Faith Evangeline Harris on 22 February 1917, in Baldwinville, Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Bernardston, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States in 1935 and Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States in 1940. He died on 17 September 1940, in Unity, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, 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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