Brief Life History of Hezekiah Heal
When Hezekiah Heal Whitney was born on 27 April 1836, in Lagrange, Penobscot, Maine, United States, his father, Sedate Wadsworth Whitney, was 33 and his mother, Dolly Ann Heal, was 30. He married Martha Ellen Maddocks on 15 September 1858, in Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Lincolnville, Waldo, Maine, United States for about 10 years and Milo, Piscataquis, Maine, United States in 1870. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 10 March 1907, in Appleton, Knox, Maine, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Appleton, Knox, Maine, United States.
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- Hezekiah Whitney, "United States Census, 1880"
- Hezekiah H. Whitney, "Find A Grave Index"
- Hezekiah H Whitney, "Maine, State Archive Collections, 1718-1957"
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1838
Historical Boundaries: 1838: Piscataquis, Maine, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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