When Isaac Whitney was born on 17 February 1790, in Lisbon Falls, Lisbon, Androscoggin, Maine, United States, his father, Abraham Whitney, was 36 and his mother, Apphia Coombs, was 30. He died in 1890, in his hometown, at the age of 100.
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Historical Boundaries: 1799: Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States 1799: Kennebec, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Kennebec, Maine, United States 1854: Androscoggin, Maine, 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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