When Henry S. Whitney was born on 28 September 1846, in Fitzwilliam, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Samuel Austin Whitney, was 36 and his mother, Sarah S. Foster, was 35. He married Clymena Farrow on 26 December 1874, in Winchendon, Winchendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Phillipston, Phillipston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1900 and Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1910. He died on 16 January 1920, in Gardner, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 73, 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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