When Washington Irving Whittier was born on 4 February 1847, in Fairfield, Franklin, Vermont, United States, his father, Edmund Alonzo Whittier, was 35 and his mother, Lucy Ann Aldrich, was 29. He married Sarah Ann Tart on 15 December 1875, in Starksboro, Addison, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Douglas, Colorado, United States in 1885 and Case, Douglas, Colorado, United States in 1910. He died on 28 July 1910, in Castle Rock, Douglas, Colorado, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Castle Rock, Douglas, Colorado, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1861: Douglas, Colorado Territory, United States 1876: Douglas, Colorado, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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English: occupational name for a dresser of white leather, someone who tawed skins into whitleather, from Middle English whīt ‘white’ + tawyere, towyere, tewere, an agent noun from West Saxon Old English tāwian, Anglian tēwian ‘to taw’.
History: John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–92), poet and active opponent of slavery, was descended from Thomas Whittier, who came to MA from England in 1638.
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