Brief Life History of William Howard
When William Howard Whitney was born on 17 August 1848, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Horace Kimball Whitney, was 25 and his mother, Helen Mar Kimball, was 19. He died on 23 August 1848, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Pioneer Children's Memorial, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- William Howard Whitney, "Find A Grave Index"
- William Howard Whitney, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
- William Howard Whitney - Pioneer Overland Travel
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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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Kimballs mentioned throughout Daniel Davis Diaries (1846-92)
May 1848 Mond[ay] 8th Father [Heber C. Kimball] Bro Wm. & I Was Loading some Wagons for our Journey to the valley of the Great Salt Lake. In this night Father Was very sick with t[he] Chils & Fever …
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