Brief Life History of Mary Linda
When Mary Linda Whitney was born on 17 August 1872, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Horace Kimball Whitney, was 49 and her mother, Mary Cravath, was 33. She married Horace Samuel Ensign Jr. on 21 June 1894, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. She died on 27 April 1916, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Mary W Ensign in household of Horace S Ensign, "United States Census, 1910"
- Mary L. Whitney, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Mary Whitney Ensign, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1876 · Colorado becomes a State
On Aug 1, 1876, The United States Congress passed an act making the Territory of Colorado the 38th state.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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