Brief Life History of Whitney
When Whitney was born on 28 September 1885, in Tunbridge, Orange, Vermont, United States, his father, James A. Whitney, was 36 and his mother, Augusta A Diamond, was 33. He died on 28 September 1885, in Vermont, United States, at the age of 0.
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- Whitney, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"
- Whitney, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"
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Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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